In the video, Zhang washes a live chicken for two and a half hours, again wearing surgical gloves, which lends the video a disturbingly forensic ambience and recalls
his early photorealist paintings of latex gloves.
Not exact matches
Alongside significant
early works such as Me, Jesus and the Children (2001 — 2003)-- a
photorealist painting of the artist's chest, overlaid with cartoon cherubs and floating speech bubbles — the exhibition features
paintings from Colen's long - running «Gum» and «Trash» series.
[4][5][6] Graham Thompson wrote «One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of
photorealist painting in the late 1960s and
early 1970s.
[19] «One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of
photorealist painting in the late 1960s and
early 1970s.
Alongside his celebrated abstractions,
early black - and - white
paintings and the
photorealist depictions of candles, skulls and clouds that have become indisputable icons of modern
painting, Panorama includes nearly 30 new
paintings made over the past ten years, extensive comparative works, studio photographs, archival images and a substantial interview with the artist conducted by Nicholas Serota.
These have ranged from his
early photorealist airbrushed
paintings (1969 - 1977) to his recent more loosely rendered acrylic flower
paintings.
But let's not forget the
early and important black and white
photorealist Richter
painting that didn't find any takers in the sale at Christie's last Tuesday night.
The great German painter Gerhard Richter is represented in this week's sales by a few of his collector - catnip Abstraktes Bilds, but his top lot is in fact an example of his historic
photorealist works from
earlier in his career, when he was upsetting the applecart of Modern European
painting.