Though Fisher begins with photographs of clouds used as studies, the resulting compositions, though photographically accurate in their details, are clearly painted and
not mechanical reproductions.
Not exact matches
In 1985 Richter said that he was ready to «try out my abstract works in printmaking but in a more conventional manner... etching and all that,» but it did
not happen.12 Instead he continued to cycle between
mechanical reproduction (with increasingly refined production values) and haptic hand - facture.
His is
not the
mechanical mode of recycling that dominates contemporaneous dialogues surrounding appropriation,
reproduction, or distribution.
They may be creating art in the age of
mechanical reproduction, but none of the works,
not even the 102 original of Warhol's «Shadows» (1978) two of which are on display, Wade's (Untitled) X's and U's (2006 & 2008) or Wool's «Minor Mishaps» (2001) are exactly the same.
However, unlike Pop artists such as Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist, Thiebaud worked from life,
not from media images, and his engagement was evident in his loose brushstroke, whereas a hard - edge painting style, signifying
mechanical reproduction, was preferred by many Pop artists.