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David Wojnarowicz — Tomato Sauce
David Wojnarowicz

Tomato Sauce

1984

"Tomato Sauce" by David Wojnarowicz combines acrylic paint with commercial screenprint to create a work that exemplifies his characteristic layering of mass media imagery with gestural abstraction. The piece reflects Wojnarowicz's practice of appropriating and subverting commercial and popular culture materials as a means of interrogating consumer capitalism and cultural meaning. Through the juxtaposition of commercial printing techniques with the artist's hand, the work embodies his broader artistic strategy of disrupting the boundary between high art and everyday visual culture.

Medium
acrylic on commercial screenprint

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David Wojnarowicz, Tomato Sauce, 1984

"Tomato Sauce" by David Wojnarowicz combines acrylic paint with commercial screenprint to create a work that exemplifies his characteristic layering of mass media imagery with gestural abstraction. The piece reflects Wojnarowicz's practice of appropriating and subverting commercial and popular culture materials as a means of interrogating consumer capitalism and cultural meaning. Through the juxtaposition of commercial printing techniques with the artist's hand, the work embodies his broader artistic strategy of disrupting the boundary between high art and everyday visual culture.

Medium
acrylic on commercial screenprint
Year
1984
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Dark Aesthetic, Consumer Culture Critique, Mixed Media, Postmodern, Food Imagery, American Artist, Political Commentary, Installation Art, Late 20th Century, Visceral

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Collected by

Kylie Cohen