Murder Most Foul

Murder Most Foul

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Original artwork by Paul Rienzo. Acrylic on Board. 35" x 36".

•    Murder Most Foul is a song released in 2020 by Bob Dylan is nearly 17 minutes long.  The title is borrowed from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
•    The porcelain clown figure playing the drum celebrates the opera Pagliacci.  It is a story of troupe of traveling actors led by the jealous clown Canio, who discovers his wife Nedda is having an affair with a villager named Silvio. During a performance, a play-within-a-play mirrors the real-life situation, and Canio's jealousy boils over, leading him to drop the mask of Pagliaccio and murder Nedda and Silvio on stage, famously declaring, "The comedy is finished!". 
•    Kennedy book end and Lincoln wine bottle: two presidents that were assassinated.
•    Caesar Augustus Sculpture: His adopted father was assassinated by the Roman Senate.
•    Toy Zoomorphic Gun
•    White Lillies: At funerals, they symbolize restored innocence for the departed. In a broader sense, they represent virtue, new beginnings, sympathy, and the refined beauty of nature.  

 

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