“Charlie has lived many of, which gives his work credence and respect due,” Elphick says. Authenticity is part of the appeal, he says. James Elphick, founder and curator of underground art organization Guerrilla Zoo, has hosted work by Salvador in recent years, organizing “ The Death of Bronson” in 2015. Gaping mouths and contorted bodies in Hieronymus Bosch’s “ A Violent Forcing of the Frog” are referenced in Salvador’s work, while Francis Bacon’s triptychs are riffed on in the multiple personalities of “Triptophrenia” – controversially displayed on London’s Underground network in 2010. When Cezanne’s “ The Card Players” sold for a record amount in 2011 Salvador drew a version of his own. There are influences to be found too, she argues, sourced from art books sent in by well-wishers. Salvador is unable to speak to the media and has little opportunity to rebuff what critics read into his work.) (But this is, she says, only her interpretation. File photograph of Salvador, sporting his most famous look, the shaved head and moustache.
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