The Laboratory | John Collier | 1895 Select Size:18" x 24" stripped of individuality and humanity

stripped of individuality and humanity

The painting is characterized by a vivid contrast in colors and moods

Yet every object feels intentionally placed to suggest a human presence just outside the viewer’s reach

This exquisite work depicts a young girl

and isolation

The Laboratory | John Collier | 1895 Select Size:18" x 24" stripped of individuality and humanityAbout the artwork: John Colliers The Laboratory presents a carefully staged scene of revenge in which the apparent world of experiment and chemistry becomes a setting for moral corruption rather than scientific progress. Painted in 1895, the work belongs to Colliers broader interest in narrative images often described as problem pictures, designed to provoke speculation about the characters and their motives, and this painting was associated with a