Contemporary Art
Schwartz Art Collection
Schwartz Art Collection
Steve Ellis
(American, born 1970)
Crashed MGB, 2002
Steve Ellis, Crashed MGB, 2002, oil on canvas. 24 x 66 in., Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School
"This painting was referenced by destroying a toy model on concrete, a reenactment of life-size personal experience. Then by greatly enlarging the scale and combining toy and real car elements, I blur the edges to create a subversive symbol from our society. It is chaos derived from a controlled palette painting technique - that of French realist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. I draw my inspiration from survival stories, and the art of the still-life/non-literal portrait."—Steve Ellis