Original painting available — $400. Acrylic on canvas, 8 × 10 inches. Select “Original” below to purchase.

Fine-art prints are available in three sizes.

This portrait of filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl confronts the role of the artist in shaping, spreading and sanitizing dangerous ideologies. Celebrated for her technical brilliance yet inseparable from her work creating propaganda for Nazi Germany, Riefenstahl stands behind a camera marked by a bloodied swastika, a symbol of complicity. The painting asks viewers to consider how art can be weaponized, how beauty can obscure brutality, and what responsibility an artist bears for the images she creates.