Green Drape 2

Photography and Media

2000

James Welling
American, born 1951

James Welling is associated with the artists of the Pictures Generation (a group that also includes Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince, among others), who have investigated photography as a field with a specific history that is simultaneously the broad basis for all visual representation in our time. In 1981 Welling began photographing drapery in connection with his early experiments with photographic abstraction, and he has often returned to this subject throughout his career. Green Drapes evokes the curtain’s many historical uses in theater, painting, and studio portraiture, while also emphasizing its sensuous physicality and near flatness.

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Artist: James Welling
Title: Green Drape 2
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 2000
Medium: Chromogenic print
Credit Line: Photography Gala Fund
Reference Number: 2010.287.2

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