Swarv
2005
Marilyn Minter's *Swarv* is a large-scale chromogenic print that exemplifies her signature hyper-realistic aesthetic, capturing a close-up, intensely detailed view that blurs the line between photography and painting. The work explores themes of desire, beauty, and consumer culture through its lush, tactile surface and seductive visual language. Minter's distinctive approach transforms the mundane into something simultaneously glamorous and unsettling.
- Medium
- chromogenic print
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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September 26, 2018
Artists in conversation
Richard Prince
American · b. 1949
Prince similarly appropriates and interrogates consumer culture and glamour through photographic imagery, using advertising aesthetics and desire as central themes in large scale works that feel simultaneously seductive and critically detached.
Cindy Sherman
American · b. 1954
Sherman's large format chromogenic prints share Minter's focus on constructed femininity, beauty culture, and the unsettling undercurrents beneath glamorous surfaces, using close up and hyper detailed photographic aesthetics to provoke psychological unease.
Rineke Dijkstra
Dutch · b. 1959
Dijkstra works in large scale chromogenic prints with an intensely detailed and hyper realistic photographic approach, exploring the tension between surface beauty and vulnerability in ways that share Minter's tactile and voyeuristic visual language.
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