La Grande Ferne - Hommage à Bernard Réquichot 1963

Dado's "La Grande Ferne - Hommage à Bernard Réquichot" is this sprawling, chaotic world made with oil on canvas, paying tribute to fellow artist Bernard Réquichot. The brushwork feels urgent, almost frantic, like Dado was wrestling with the canvas to get all these figures down. The color palette leans toward muted, earthy tones, but there are these jarring pops of fleshy pinks and sickly greens that keep you off balance. The texture is all over the place – some areas are built up with thick, impasto paint, while others are thinly glazed, creating this weird push and pull between the foreground and background. Look at the center, the way he renders skin, it's almost like raw meat. Dado's work is like a nightmare carnival, full of grotesque figures and decaying landscapes, like something by Bosch but with a modern, existential twist. His paintings aren't about easy answers; they're about embracing the messy, uncomfortable truths of life and death.