High Society, C. Brown

Writhing bodies, swirling paint, gargantuan size, and intrusive color are just a few things we expect from a Brown painting. But in High Society, I am reminded of a joke: the Aristocrats. It's a sort of comedian's joke, said to one another as a sort of a "warm-up" before sets. Its about a family showing their act to a talent scout, and the result in bestiality , urine, incestuous pornographic sex, and probably some blood. at the end of the repulsive act, they announce the title of the family trope: The Aristocrats. High Society is in the same branch of social commentary, the upper class as barbaric and uncouth despite the the fact that they are fashionably clad in their top hats.