Sentences with phrase «monochrome joke paintings»

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

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.

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The radical appropriation of the joke series echoes Warhol's Campbell Soup Can paintings and the monochrome jokes are archetypical of Richard Prince's creation as they define the dry, dead - pan aesthetic of the artist.

Momentarily abandoning the stupefying rhetoric of immediacy that characterized his earlier photographic appropriations, he is now reinscribing his work in the well - lit field of modern paradigms: by referencing the monochrome as he did in his previous «joke» paintings, by reintroducing collage and silk - screen superimpositions, and above all by coating some of his appropriations with a thin layer of white paint that is simultaneously on top of and underneath the imagery.

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).

Richard Prince is showing his best paintings since he began painting the monochrome jokes in the late 1980s («Richard Prince: Ripple Paintings ``, until 22 December at Gladstone paintings since he began painting the monochrome jokes in the late 1980s («Richard Prince: Ripple Paintings ``, until 22 December at Gladstone Paintings ``, until 22 December at Gladstone Gallery).

«I first came to Jeanne's uptown space to view several monochrome Richard Prince «Joke» paintings,» Mr. Rodriguez wrote in an email.