1991

Untitled

American, born 1949

On this canvas, jokes, advertising images, cartoons, and photographs coexist as decontextualized fragments. Through the artistic process of appropriation, clichés of everyday speech and popular culture stop relating to their original context and are held up to the scrutiny of the artist’s devices. Richard Prince juxtaposes these elements with domestic interiors that he has rotated on their axes and silkscreened onto the surface of the painting to appear as if clipped from a newspaper, furthering the work’s disjointed view of the familiar.