Video: Nurses in Richard Prince's paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Once the American artist and photographer Richard Prince noticed that pictures of nurses are often found on the covers of romance novels that women on the subway like to read so much. The author decided to use this observation in his work, and so the series of paintings "The Nurse Paintings" was born, the main characters of which were, of course, nurses - sexy and not very, dangerous, sad, compassionate …
The idea to create such a series of the author was prompted by the covers of inexpensive paperback novels, which are often sold at newsstands or on subway layouts. This cheap and not very intellectual entertainment made Richard Prince wonder what Americans really want. The author scanned the covers of the books, and then using the printer, he printed the images, turning them into a kind of canvases. After that, Richard had only to take acrylic paints in his hands and do with these canvases everything that his imagination would suggest. Technically, The Nurse Paintings is notable for the layering of digital and analog information: applying an analog medium (acrylics) over digital printing (printer) digital image (scanner) analog printing (book cover) analog artwork (original cover art)).
The series "The Nurse Paintings" was created in the period from 2002 to 2006: during this time 42 images of nurses were born. In all the pictures, the heroines are wearing hats and surgical masks. Richard Prince retained the original titles of the novels, which have now become the titles of his works: for example, "The Wayward Nurse" or "Foreign Nurse".
The first works from the series "The Nurse Paintings" were presented in 2003 at the Barbara Gladstone Galleries. At that time, viewers and critics were ambivalent about the works of Richard Prince, and not everyone wanted to buy a painting for the requested price of 50-60 thousand dollars. But to date, the amount raised from the sale of images with nurses already reaches 5-6 million dollars, and often at auctions for paintings they offer such large sums that the organizers did not even expect initially.
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