Sentences with phrase «joke paintings»

On my Saturday excursion, Margo Leavin was showing new work by the queen of the appropriationists, Sherrie Levine; Stuart Regen was showing a new batch of nasty joke paintings by Richard Prince; Manny Silverman was hosting a modest retrospective of paintings by Sam Francis; and the Kohn Turner Gallery was showing new work, based on Brancusi and Ezra Pound, by Richard Pettibone.

The sale was led by a Richard Prince joke painting that made a very competitive (for LAMA) $ 1.58 m.

Painted in 1991, the painting demonstrates one of the most well - known phrases from the artist's celebrated series of joke paintings rendered in silkscreen ink upon a vast, mulberry pink - hued canvas.

In carefully selecting his jokes from various sources and disengaging them from their original setting, the monochromatic joke paintings continued in the same vein of appropriation that had underlain much of his earlier work.

TB: Usually people just laugh, the New York art world isn't scandalized by a dick joke painting as far as I can tell.

His paintings are highly - coveted, his work is notoriously complex, yet the illustrated joke paintings embody some of the most radical experiments of contemporary art, all the while eliciting a wry smile.

The auction draws its title from one of the highlights of the auction, Richard Prince's monochrome joke painting If I die..., as a tribute to the artist whose visual vocabulary was transformative for an entire generation.

These dick joke paintings, the latest in «her» practice, are based on works by Richard Prince.»

Prince's first joke painting, made in 1986 but one that he has revisited time again, belies this preference for using found subject matter.

Painted in 2006, Richard Prince's Untitled (de Kooning) updates his unique brand of appropriation, replacing his use of pulp fiction novels and minimal joke paintings with reproductions of de Kooning paintings and photographs of adult models.

Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black female artist «created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.

Also presented are media, such as painting, usually omitted from histories of either appropriation or institutional critique, like Sue Williams's fiery joke painting Spiritual America, 1992.

(I couldn't find one Prince Joke Painting specifically about dicks, but here's that one about a psychiatrist stealing his act, which is also on this Christopher Wool painting in «collaboration» with Prince.

Carol Jackson's glittery sculpture resembles early Lynda Benglis, while Donelle Woolford's joke paintings dare one to decide whether «Richard P» stands for Richard Prince or Richard Pryor.

And on the fourth floor, Donelle is represented by two Dick Joke paintings.

By reducing a traditionally auditory mode of entertainment into a flat, planer stream of text, Prince's Joke paintings defy straightforward categorization.

Richard Prince, one of the pioneers of the Pictures Generation movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, has built a career out of wryly commenting upon the psychology of pop culture through appropriated imagery — perhaps best epitomized by his iconic Joke paintings.

Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA), the boutique auction house dedicated to modern and contemporary fine art and design, set a new company record, selling a single work for the highest price in the company's 24 - year history: Richard Prince's Bedtime Story (1988) from the seminal Monochromatic Jokes paintings realized $ 1.585 million.

Looking cheap compared to some of his contemporaries like Christopher Wool (b. 1955), a small yellow joke painting by Richard Prince (b. 1949) fetched the princely sum of # 242,500 ($ 405,000) at Sotheby's against a high estimate of # 120,000 ($ 201,000).

Unlike his Pop Art predecessors however, whose work still retains a kind of optimistic freshness of the postwar era in which they were created, Prince's joke paintings display a sarcastic quality that is more suited to the postmodern world.

In his early Joke paintings, the artist experimented with layering pilfered cartoon illustrations and their pun - riddled, Freudian punchlines on canvas with a silkscreen while also inviting incidents of chance, dripping and other fragmentary evidence of his hand.

People might not particularly want to have an Old Master on their walls, but there could easily come a time, in the none too distant future, when absolutely no one has any desire to have a massive joke painting on their walls, either: it would just look dated and embarrassing.

More joke paintings, some of them very large, executed for the most part in a sepia - ish palette.

Lot 30, Richard Prince, Untitled Joke Painting, 2009, Pre-sale estimate: $ 350,000 - $ 450,000.

During an auction last year, behind the podium, they had a monochromatic joke painting next to a Rothko next to a Barnett Newman.

«Among the casualties were Lisa Yuskavage's 2003 oil - on - canvas work «Dark Garden II,» a 2001 joke painting by Prince and a pink acrylic work of blank advertising signs from 2004 by Ed Ruscha.

A 1993 work that looks like a Richard Prince joke painting — blue capital letters on a green monochrome — also addresses art history, though of a more sweeping variety (and demonstrates his skill as a colorist).

Indeed, throughout this particular series of illustrated joke paintings, the artist mixed and matched different captions and jokes with anonymous cartoons he culled from the pages of Playboy and The New Yorker, most of which depicted two lovers who are caught in the act of passion by a vindicated onlooker.

They organized Richard Prince's project «First House,» an old tear - down bungalow where the artist showed a series of joke paintings, among other works.

If I Die is one of seven known large monochrome joke paintings and was formerly in the collection of Peter Brant.

The works are appealing confections that combine tasteless jokes (these came after his first joke paintings) and silk screens of cartoons (and other images) into hazy collages.

- Richard Prince Painted in 1990, If I Die is one of Richard Prince's celebrated series of monochromatic joke paintings; the deadpan, visual expressions of humor that have been the mainstay of the American artist's career.

His word painting «Untitled» (1990 - 1991), in enamel and graphite on aluminum, which begins with «THESHOWISO / VERTHE AUDIEN / CEGETUP,» dominates the room devoted to art based on language and advertising, which includes a joke painting by Richard Prince («Nancy to Her Girlfriend,» 1988) and the mock liquor ad, «Come Through with Taste ⎯ Myers's Dark Rum ⎯ Quote Newsweek» (1986) by Jeff Koons.

To summarize internet - local highlights in #appropriationart... Richard Prince: B + for being the O.G. [«Joke Paintings» 1987 - 89] Donelle Woolford: A for pwning the O.G. *** Joe Scanlan: D -(Dick, minus.)

Woolford's dick jokes on canvas appropriated the concept from Richard Prince's Joke Paintings.

While the «joke paintings» take a swing at Richard Prince, say, or at the power dynamics generally played out in contemporary painting — and do so with Prior's legacy as weapon — the present installation instead quiets and diffuses a man the artist plainly admires.

If an appropriation of a joke painting is not a stale joke, nothing is.

The idea that Dick is a word that we use for men, men in general, and also a body part, but then also perhaps Richard Prince, who's known for his joke paintings as well.

The joke paintings began in the mid-1980s as hand - written pieces that the artist never originally intended for public display.

As with many of Prince's joke paintings, the dark comedy of If I Die, isolated and presented in such a disconcertingly sparse way, eludes to its altogether more unsettling historical origins.

It is arguably the joke paintings, however, that most perceptively convey the myriad of influences that construct American identity.

In his joke paintings, Prince bravely takes control of this disorientating power, and wields it on canvas, paint and stretcher to challenge his own medium and profession.

This touched off his iconic series of «joke paintings,» which would eventually include punch lines cribbed from famous stand - up comics.

In a similar process, the joke paintings too find authorless statements, filtered down over generations and disseminated across the world, and take ownership of them, immortalizing them in the physical form of painting.

Here, the subversion lies in how Prince references his most famous series — the joke paintings — and half - covers them with a hotchpotch anthology of his «own» (largely borrowed) painting styles, in which Picasso and de Kooning loom large as classic depictors of the female nude — sort of a self - parody wrapped up in a wider parody.

That formula also saved Richard Prince's untitled 2003 joke painting, acquired in the year it was made from Barbara Gladstone Gallery, that sold to a telephone bidder for just $ 212,500 on a $ 300 - 400,000 estimate.

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Prince's Joke paintings and Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills series capitalized upon ubiquitous cultural staples that have no specific source.