Ansel Krut with out wanting to has influenced a whole generation of painters. If you have a knowing eye you can spot this influence everywhere. Such an Influence can be detected in Ryan Mosely. As the master painter you would be right to expect and find an incredible depth of purpose, humanity and politics of personhood in his subjects.

Krut is like the Neon Goya of the 21st Century – one can sense a gorgeous incandescent rage in his work. Possessing an ability like Goya to create allegories of our times and its characters. Ansel is very careful to remain un-didactic, which amplifies the power of his work and it’s intention. Dark humour is masterfully administered by this once medical student, one feels the wider its dissemination more more ills would be cured or prevented altogether.

It s important to carefully note “the worst thing you can do is just see the f***ing joke and not just stay there only with the joke and not go beyond that” as the artist has stated. Ansel Krut Arse Flowers In Bloom 2010 maybe one of the most difficult of Krut’s paintings to behold, as they may cause outrage,  perplexity or be read simply on the surface. The painting is, sympathetically treats the subject of an extreme pathetic state, yet where dignity is attempted regardless of failure or the impossiblity of any reward for the effort and attempt to escape an impossible reality or identity.

Ansel’s powerful draughtsmanship and tight editing of the preparatory drawings can be attributed to close study of Picasso. This is along with the integrating and synthesis of a great span of painters makes for an absorbing and even haunting experience as well feel something deeply resonant from human history comes to speak to us. Perhaps the element of the disturbing about Ansel’s work comes from the idea that something from the past, something repress has come back en-fleshed, there is certainly a deep contemplation of the histories and the legacies the 20th Century’s tumult. Yet it is clear what is painful is that only now, only in the present have these newly forged works come to exist, and they warn us just how vital we in ourselves must be to be present and active not passive witnesses to our

times.