Sentences with phrase «oof painting»
Kass has made portraits of Barbara Streisand in the style of Andy Warhol, and transformed Ed Ruscha's OOF painting into... Read More
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In loud colour, «Noise», «Scream» and «OOF» — evoking the exclamation of someone being punched in the stomach — continued his experiments with single words as a painting's subject.
In 1962, Ed Ruscha painted his famous and revolutionary OOF in these yellow block letters on a blue background; in 2009, Kass added a bit of Yiddishkeit, updating it to OY; here she adds an extra letter, entirely reversing the original meaning.
After returning to America, his paintings continued to reproduced individual words such as Boss (1961), Smash (1963)(which sold for $ 30,405,000 at Christie's New York in November 2014), Honk (1962), Oof (1963) and Automatic (1966).
Ms. Kass — known for appropriating the styles of male artists as both homage and feminist one - upmanship — first created «OY» as a painting riffing on Edward Ruscha's 1962 Pop canvas, «OOF.»