"Devotchka at the Moloka Bar" 20"x24" acrylic on canvas Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange" was banned from schools for objectionable language - and the movie adaptation also faced bans in several countries for the strong language and excessive violence. Dana Ellyn's painting, "Devotchka at the Moloko Bar", pulls from several concepts in the book. First, the title of the painting is written in the slang language (called Nadsat) that Burgess created for the book. In the painting, the protagonist (Alex) sits next to a devotchka (girl) at a moloko (milk) bar. Alex and his violent gang would drink drugged milk to hype themselves up for a night of mayhem. Alex is arrested and subject to an experimental aversion therapy program (the Ludovico technique) which turns him in to something other than a human being - he looses his power to make choices. (In Dana's painting, she adorns Alex in the hat worn by Caspar Milquetoast - a 1924 character from the comic strip The Timid Soul. The word milquetoast means a weak and ineffectual person. In essence, what Alex becomes after his therapy.)