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Richard Prince — Weeping and Crying
Richard Prince

Weeping and Crying

"Weeping and Crying" by Richard Prince is an acrylic and silkscreen work on canvas that explores the artist's signature practice of appropriation, recontextualizing existing imagery to challenge notions of authorship and originality. Prince layers bold, gestural mark-making with mechanically reproduced imagery, creating a tension between the raw and the manufactured. The work invites viewers to question the boundaries between emotion and artifice, authenticity and reproduction.

Medium
acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
Location
Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale

February 9, 2016

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Richard Prince, Weeping and Crying

"Weeping and Crying" by Richard Prince is an acrylic and silkscreen work on canvas that explores the artist's signature practice of appropriation, recontextualizing existing imagery to challenge notions of authorship and originality. Prince layers bold, gestural mark-making with mechanically reproduced imagery, creating a tension between the raw and the manufactured. The work invites viewers to question the boundaries between emotion and artifice, authenticity and reproduction.

Medium
acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Postmodernism, Postmodern Art, Acrylic On Canvas, Male Artist, Provocative Mood, Emotional Imagery, Acrylic And Silkscreen, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Artist, Muted Tones, Canvas, Appropriation Art, American Artist, Silkscreen, Pop Art, Contemporary Art, Figurative

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