Items Similar to After Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers 1889, 2017
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6
Carol Inez CharneyAfter Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers 1889, 2017
About the Item
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --In 2013, I first saw Carol Inez Charney’s striking semi-abstract photographs depicting details of modernist architecture partially obscured by and refracted by water. These large photographs, printed on aluminum, and unframed, were photographic, naturally, but also painterly, with the streams of water that seemingly flowed down an invisible, interposed glass pane both breaking up the image and reassembling it into painterly abstractions reminiscent of the works by Pollock, Still, Rauschenberg, Johns and others that had fascinated Charney as a student, launching her art career.
"In her latest body of work, After Painting, from 2016, Charney focuses completely on culture, i.e., universally beloved paintings by Leonardo, Van Eyck, Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse, Chagall and Picasso, all made before 1923, and now in the public domain. Using high-quality reproductions, Charney rephotographs details from the works and groups them in twos and threes—into diptychs or triptychs, to employ the art-historical term used for multi-panel paintings. The ‘After’ designation refers to the art-historian’s way of labeling copies of old artworks made by admiring younger artists, a common practice before the advent of photography, and a way of paying homage to and learning from the past: Van Gogh copied Rubens, and Rubens copied Leonardo, and so on. Sometimes this hands-on method of assimilation resulted in creative variations, like Picasso’s innumerable Velasquez variations, or Manet’s quotations (or parodies) of Giorgione and Titian.
"Charney’s gradual shift of interest from the natural world to the world of visual culture is not unique in our postmodernist age, which looks at and to cultural production in the way that past artists looked at and to nature. If collage was the core of modernist art, appropriation, the quotation or sampling of previous art, could be said to be postmodernism’s. Sherrie Levine in her 1980s After Walker Evans photographs rephotographed the great social documentarian’s photos of the 1930s. Cindy Sherman’s faux movie stills, with the photographer costumed and made up to resemble archetypal movie heroines, but from movies never made, are another example of art deriving from other art.
"Charney’s creative reuse of master paintings, however, reflects none of the postmodernist questioning of originality cited above. With degrees in both painting and photography, Charney is an admitted “frustrated painter” who found photography more congenial than painting, but still seeks the complex ‘conversation,’ or moment’ provided by the slower, handmade medium. In Charney’s carefully assembled diptychs and triptychs, we see iconic modernist paintings anew, through the artist’s curtain of rivulets, enriched by water’s metaphorical associations with time, change, metamorphosis and the unconscious. A century ago, Marcel Duchamp mocked what he considered at the time the connoisseur’s fetishistic interest in the painter’s hand and touch; Charney’s photographic studies, which “reinterpret classical painting,” let us revel in that handiwork, made invisible to us through familiarity, perhaps, through her sharp eye and lens.
"Framed like paintings, within floater frames, Charney’s photographs “look at art in a new way and reinterpret it in a new way”— combining two media, photography and painting, and merging two aesthetic sensibilities, hers and that of, say, Picasso— separated by decades and centuries. If you have seen Werner Herzog’s 2010 film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, you may remember that one of the prehistoric wall paintings lovingly documented in that films was a collaboration of two artists who lived and worked in that Chauvet cave five thousand years apart."
—DeWitt Cheng
Notes: Old Masters, Art History, Van Gigh, Flowers, Sunflowers, Framed
Colors: Yellow, Green, Red
- Creator:Carol Inez Charney (American)
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:Framed.
- Gallery Location:Fairfield, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU18321692693
About the Seller
5.0
Vetted Seller
These experienced sellers undergo a comprehensive evaluation by our team of in-house experts.
Established in 1996
1stDibs seller since 2015
236 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: 1 hour
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Los Angeles, CA
- Return PolicyThis item cannot be returned.
More From This SellerView All
- CB4By Carol Inez CharneyLocated in Fairfield, CTRepresented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Charney writes of her process: “For many years, I'd been trying to combine painting and photography with very contrived results...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
MaterialsAluminum
- SUN 1By Carol Inez CharneyLocated in Fairfield, CTRepresented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Charney writes of her process: “For many years, I'd been trying to combine painting and photography with very contrived results. O...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
MaterialsAluminum
- SPL 6By Carol Inez CharneyLocated in Fairfield, CTRepresented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Charney writes of her process: “For many years, I'd been trying to combine painting and photography with very contrived results. O...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
MaterialsAluminum
- SPL 13By Carol Inez CharneyLocated in Fairfield, CTRepresented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Charney writes of her process: “For many years, I'd been trying to combine painting and photography with very contrived results. O...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
MaterialsAluminum
- After Henri Matisse: The Goldfish 1 1912, 2017By Carol Inez CharneyLocated in Fairfield, CTRepresented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --In 2013, I first saw Carol Inez Charney’s striking semi-abstract photographs depicting details of modernist architecture partially ob...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
MaterialsC Print
- After Claude Monet: Chrysanthemums 1897, 2017By Carol Inez CharneyLocated in Fairfield, CTRepresented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --In 2013, I first saw Carol Inez Charney’s striking semi-abstract photographs depicting details of modernist architecture partially ob...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
MaterialsC Print
You May Also Like
- Shingles (red)Located in New York, NYLambda digital c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss, 2003. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 3/3 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently pr...Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda
- SpanishLocated in New York, NYLambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 2/2 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiere...Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda
- Eric's WindowLocated in New York, NYFrom the series "Light Leaks" (2008) Type-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss, 2008. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 2/2 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in L...Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda
- PopsicleLocated in New York, NYFrom the Secondhand Nature series #22. Archival Pigment Print on Canson Baryta Photographique IISigned, dated, and numbered 2/2 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angel...Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Film, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment
- Piet 2Located in New York, NYLambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 1/2 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiered his latest series of photographic murals entitled Analogies & Metaphors in New York City. Andrew’s work has been in 20 international exhibitions, most recently in Japan and Korea (where accompanying books of his work were published) and Germany. Andrew’s internationally acclaimed photography and interview project, Right, before I die, traveled abroad 7 times and attracted more than half a million visitors at its various venues. Andrew has won numerous awards for his photography and has appeared in The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, CBS News...Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda
- TivoliLocated in New York, NYType-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss, 2003. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 1/2 on verso. In the series ‘Weights & Measures’ (2003) Andrew George turns his lens ...Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Vincent Artist
Painting By Van Gogh
After Pay
After Manet
Van Gogh Vincent
Abstract Photography Collage
Van Gogh Prints
Framed Van Gogh
After Monet
After Van Gogh
Collage Abstract Flower
Abstract Photo Of Flower
Large Abstract Flower Print
Diptych Nature Photography
George Vincent
Cindy Sherman Paintings
Advent Art
Picasso Glass Abstract