THE NATIONAL POST
BY Jonathon Kay
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| Aent Monkman is seen with a piece of his artwork at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary on June 15, 2017. |
As some of my regular readers know, I often like having a bash at the government-subsidized amateurs who populate the field of Canadian arts and letters. (It’s not their fault: when the government pays for something, you often get too much of it.) But
Kent Monkman is very, very much not in that category. He produces big, colourful epics that dramatically mash up the visual idioms of Judeo-Christian historical tradition with Indigenous characters and narratives. And Monkman’s works well enough that he can charge $175,000 a pop, which is approximately $175,000 more than your average art-school grad. [
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| Critics say Cree artist Kent Monkman’s controversial painting Hanky Panky depicts the sexual assault of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Postmedia News |
