Beginning with his infamous
Richard Prince's *Beginning with his infamous* combines inkjet printing with oil crayon and acrylic on canvas, blending digital and painterly processes in a way that challenges conventional boundaries between photography and fine art. The work reflects Prince's longstanding engagement with appropriation, repurposing existing imagery and text to interrogate notions of authorship, originality, and consumer culture. Layered marks and gestural interventions disrupt the mechanical precision of the printed surface, creating a tension between reproduction and raw, hand-applied expression.
- Medium
- inkjet, oil crayon, acrylic on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
October 15, 2014
Artists in conversation
Barbara Kruger
American · b. 1945
Kruger similarly appropriates existing imagery and overlays bold graphic text to challenge authorship, consumerism, and power structures, creating works that blend photographic and painterly sensibilities within a conceptual postmodern framework.
Mike Bidlo
American · b. 1953
Bidlo engages deeply with appropriation and questions of originality by remaking canonical artworks, using mixed media processes that interrogate authorship and the boundaries between reproduction and fine art in ways closely aligned with this piece.
Christopher Wool
American · b. 1955
Wool combines silkscreen printing, gestural acrylic marks, and text on canvas to disrupt mechanical precision with painterly intervention, producing bold and provocative works that share this piece's hybrid approach between digital reproduction and expressive mark making.
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