Sentences with phrase «whose joke painting»
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.
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The one decent guy — chaste, earnest, married Devon (Nate Torrence), whose references to animated Disney films from his childhood are almost hilarious (but just a touch inauthentic)-- is painted to be the joke of the group.
Barnett Newman, whose joke that is, had called a painting Vir Heroicus Sublimus — man the sublime hero.
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.
They are printed with bawdy tales involving a character named Richard and elegant scribbles in the style of market - hot white male artists like Richard Prince (whose own «Joke» paintings can sell for seven figures), Christopher Wool, Michael Krebber and Albert Oehlen.
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.
The artist makes a trenchant joke by choosing these big paintings — whose text is periodically underlined with impasto pink or gruesome, runny red paint that knowingly fetishizes her own hand — as her contribution to the loaded context of the Biennial.