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Ordinary Objects / Wild Things
Dec 15, 2018 - Jul 14, 2019
Since the seventeenth century, the still-life genre has attracted artists keen to describe in visual terms the ordinary objects of everyday life. Early in the genre’s history, verisimilitude was a primary concern in assessing the still life’s success, but in today’s artistic practice, it is no longer a categorical requirement. Over the past fifty years, artists from a broad range of stylistic perspectives have approached and expanded the genre; the artworks selected for Ordinary Objects / Wild Things exemplify this diversity. Some of the objects populating this group of prints conform to our traditional expectations. But static objects are not the only things that populate these prints. In many, these same articles have turned “wild,” redesigned for unconventional and unexpected use. Artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Jasper Johns have made a habit of deploying ordinary objects to these unruly, extraordinary ends.
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Since the seventeenth century, the still-life genre has attracted artists keen to describe in visual terms the ordinary objects of everyday life. Early in the genre’s history, verisimilitude was a primary concern in assessing the still life’s success, but in today’s artistic practice, it is no longer a categorical requirement. Over the past fifty years, artists from a broad range of stylistic perspectives have approached and expanded the genre; the artworks selected for Ordinary Objects / Wild Things exemplify this diversity. Some of the objects populating this group of prints conform to our traditional expectations. But static objects are not the only things that populate these prints. In many, these same articles have turned “wild,” redesigned for unconventional and unexpected use. Artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Jasper Johns have made a habit of deploying ordinary objects to these unruly, extraordinary ends.
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