“Talking to Bernard” is an imagined dialogue with Bernard Buffet, George Condo, and Pablo Picasso. The background, charcoal-like lines, and shading recall Buffet’s techniques while the abstract character evokes his clown paintings. The figure in the foreground borrows from Cubist techniques. The juxtaposition of styles from different eras and the graphic lines on the figure create an eye-catching effect and an aesthetic dissonance that refuses to resolve itself to any single conclusion. Is it a painting or a cartoon drawing? To someone like Condo, both disciplines have equal footing — drawing is as important as painting — and this is what is being proposed here as well. The dialogue continues.