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Good morning colonies

€ 360 

Valentinos Vassiliou

€ 360 

Valentinos Vassiliou

“Good Morning Colonies” by Valentinos Vassiliou is a powerful and unsettling portrait that confronts the legacy of colonialism through a sharp, symbolic transformation of a familiar figure. Depicting Queen Elizabeth II with a crown and necklace made of bullets dripping with blood, the artist merges iconography of royalty with tools of violence. The halo-like bullet crown, once a symbol of divinity and rule, becomes an indictment of empire. Against a jarring green background, the monarch's expression is ambiguous—neither remorseful nor triumphant—capturing the cold continuity of power structures cloaked in elegance.

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Description

Artist:

Valentinos Vassiliou

Category:

Acrylic

Style:

Impressionism

Size:

x

41.5

x

32

Year:

Materials:

Signed:

Yes

No

SKU:

VV-025

Frame:

Yes

No

Artist:

Valentinos Vassiliou

Category:

Acrylic

Style:

Impressionism

Size:

x

41.5

x

32

Frame:

Yes

No

Year:

Materials:

Signed:

Yes

No

SKU:

VV-025

Vassiliou uses satire and symbolism to strip away the romanticized veneer of imperial history. “Good Morning Colonies” isn't just a critique of one monarch, but of an entire system that dressed exploitation in ceremony and conquest in civility. The painting’s provocative title greets former colonies with irony—an uncomfortable reminder of their past written in blood. By merging sacred visual codes with brutal reality, Vassiliou exposes how violence and privilege have long been entwined, asking viewers to reckon with the cost of crowns, both literal and metaphorical.

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