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Anthony Hassett 


In a conclusion formulated by Plato, theatre is the place where morons are invited to see other people suffering. According to the bard, what the theatrical scene offers to the spectator is the spectacle of illness, otherwise known as pathos  -a manifestation of desire and suffering. That is to say, the particular effect of theatre, according to Plato, is to transmit the illness that makes characters suffer, directly into the theatrical audience, in much the same way Greek philosopher's duped their pupils into having sex through the persistent viewing of Jeff Stryker videos.

In a nightmare association that's quite effective, the situation of those who live in modern society is practically identical to that of the shackled prisoners, or spectators, in Plato's theatrical cave. Only now, with the monstrous beast we call the Internet absorbing all desires and energies into its belly, human beings are tied together by a different sensory fabric  -not chains and shadows- but a melody of technological, inhuman, harmony. So the putative paradigm of contemporary aesthetics should be sought not in counter-posed appearances, but in the voice of an infant machine whose dramaturgy is the sensory-motor regime of social networking, Google, and Gang Bang Trannies.


The illustrated books and small portraits exhibited in California to Cairo are the results of a ten year romp around the globe, auto-poetically organizing images into a larger pattern, a la Google.

 -Anthony Hassett
Anthony Hassett "Bananas" 2012 acrylic on board 10” x 8”
Travel Journal Detail
Travel Journal detail
Donated Three 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $700
Travel Journal detail
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of the Dalai Lama 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
Donatella Four 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $700
Gazette Anthony Hassett $20
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of Kim Jon Ill 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
Travel Journal Detail
The Zona Rosa in Buenos Aires 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $900
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of Hitler 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
Travel Journals Each - watercolor marker, ink, glaze and acrylic 5.5" x 3" open 8'3" x 5.5" 31-32 illustrations $2,800
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of Trotsky 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
Donatella Five 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $700
Travel Journal detail
The Zona Rosa in Buenos Aires 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $900
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of the Dalai Lama 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of Ahmed Karzai 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
The Zona Rosa in Buenos Aires 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $900
The Zona Rosa in Buenos Aires 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $900
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of L. Ron Hubbard 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of the Ayatollah 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of Queen Elizabeth 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of Michelle Obama 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
Travel Journal detail
The Zona Rosa in Buenos Aires 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $900
The Zona Rosa in Buenos Aires 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $900
Donated Two 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $700
The Zona Rosa in Buenos Aires 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $900
The Zona Rosa in Buenos Aires 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $900
The Cigarette After Series Portrait of Gandhi 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $1,200
The Zona Rosa in Buenos Aires 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $900
Donated One 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $700
Picture
The Cigarette After Series Each individual 10" x 8" Ink and Acrylic on Wood Panel $10,000
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