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Friday, September 04, 2009

Playing Against Type: John Currin

John Currin - The Hobo, 1999
oil on canvas
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

In an attraction - repulsion strategy, the type of female beauty shown as a hobo (a vagabond). The woman from the canvas is actually Currin's wife, the artist Rachel Feinstein.

(Paint Made Flesh)

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