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Richard Prince — What Can You Do?
Richard Prince

What Can You Do?

2001

Richard Prince's *What Can You Do?* is a bold acrylic on canvas work that exemplifies the artist's ongoing interrogation of appropriation, consumer culture, and the construction of American identity. Characterized by his signature use of text and image, Prince challenges the boundaries between originality and reproduction, inviting viewers to question the nature of authorship and meaning. The painting operates within Prince's broader practice of recontextualizing familiar visual and linguistic tropes to expose the underlying tensions of desire, humor, and cultural mythology.

Medium
acrylic on canvas

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Contemporary Art Evening Sale

February 14, 2013

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Richard Prince, What Can You Do?, 2001

Richard Prince's *What Can You Do?* is a bold acrylic on canvas work that exemplifies the artist's ongoing interrogation of appropriation, consumer culture, and the construction of American identity. Characterized by his signature use of text and image, Prince challenges the boundaries between originality and reproduction, inviting viewers to question the nature of authorship and meaning. The painting operates within Prince's broader practice of recontextualizing familiar visual and linguistic tropes to expose the underlying tensions of desire, humor, and cultural mythology.

Medium
acrylic on canvas
Year
2001
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Red and Black, Bold, Acrylic On Canvas, American, Text-Based, Red, Provocative, Pop Culture, Abstract, Neo-Expressionism, 2000s, Contemporary

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