Best Intentions

"Best Intentions" is an imaginary conversation between Ingmar Bergman and Andy Warhol. The children are Fanny and Alexander the protagonists of the eponymous film by Ingmar Berman. The title of this painting Best Intentions is another nod to Bergman. In his film "The Best Intentions" we see the story of Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman and Anna Åkerbloom. "Best Intentions", merges the high art of Bergman’s angst filled films with the low art of Warhol’s Campbell’s soup can, the ultimate pop art icon. Pop artists use impersonal, mundane, recognizable symbols to parody the personal anguish and "painterly looseness" of abstract expressionism. In this piece, the children suffering and clinging to this symbol of questionable sustenance make the connotation all the more compelling.