| As a leader of Chicago's
figurative movement in the 1950s, Leon Golub challenged the dominant
styles of that time, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Described as an
existential and activist painter, Golub has recently regained recognition
for his large-scale, politically charged works that directly address
issues of war, racism, sexism and power. Political terror and man's abuse
of power are the primary subjects rendered in his monumental and highly
topical paintings. Leon Golub's work is about power and the recurring
misuse of power through violence, not as an isolated inhuman phenomenon,
but as an expression of organized, often state-sponsored, oppression and
brutality.
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