in choosing such an iconic subject, Prince hopes to strip it of context and simultaneously celebrate and expose it as a false construct. Asides from his ‘rephotography’, Prince has also created an extensive body of ‘joke paintings’ - the jokes are usually simple and rely on a punchline, one such example being “I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.”
« Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult. »
Richard Prince
Prince was in inspired by the work of Jackson Pollock from an early age, noting that he was drawn to someone who was “fairly antisocial, kind of a loner, someone who was noncollaborative” - he was also inspired by the painting techniques of
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in choosing such an iconic subject, Prince hopes to strip it of context and simultaneously celebrate and expose it as a false construct. Asides from his ‘rephotography’, Prince has also created an extensive body of ‘joke paintings’ - the jokes are usually simple and rely on a punchline, one such example being “I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.”
« Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult. »
Richard Prince
Prince was in inspired by the work of Jackson Pollock from an early age, noting that he was drawn to someone who was “fairly antisocial, kind of a loner, someone who was noncollaborative” - he was also inspired by the painting techniques of
Willem de Kooning. (
Artist website)
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