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Artwork

Pieta 1 and 2

Artist/Creator
Brice Canyon (Artist)
Date
c. 1995
ID #
BG6414

Physical Description

Medium
found images, photocopy
Support
paper
Dimensions
20.2 cm 30.6 cm (Component)

each)

Object Description
This collection of works by Brice Canyon are typical of his artistic work of the 1990s. In his artistic practice, Canyon often used appropriated images – from magazines, archives and later the Internet – to create his collaged works. In this instance there are two "pietas." The first is a still from a pornographic video and the second is an image of Michelangelo's Pieta. The figures in both images reference the other: both have one seated figure on the bottom with a second figure splayed across the top of the other. 

History

Collection
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line
Gift of Scott Watson, 2024
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