
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
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session
November 20, 2024
Lot 89
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