There is less doubt about the mood of this red Polichinelle. As Hope Wolf writes, here 'red is associated with power', and the painting 'encourages a connection with male brutalism'. She notes that 1963 was 'the year that Hannah Arendt published her controversial book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann - the book that would call the man on trial not a monster but a clown.
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