"Titus Kaphar makes painstaking copies of historical paintings and then alters them—with a whitewash, tar, by shredding or binding the canvas, by making paintings behind the paintings— to expose hidden truths."
The Myth of Benevolence, 2014
Titus Kaphar
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/two-artists-search-missing-history-180968651/
The Myth of Benevolence, 2014
Titus Kaphar
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/two-artists-search-missing-history-180968651/
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I was so focused on art history because so much of what was being told to me—“the canon”—had so many glaring absences... So my work, from the beginning, really looked at those absences."
- Titus Kaphar
“ I have this love for representational painting and this love for post-modernist gestures, these actions that disrupt the history of art making. I think smashing those two things together is how I ended making the things I’m making right now.”
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/10/27/yale-center-for-british-art-redisplays-controversial-painting-of-elihu-yale-and-enslaved-child/
i hope i can see it in person one day too
i am so glad i followed you, i had never seen this and it is incredible