Frank in the Desert, 2002 (via)
On Saatchi's website there is a very playful description:
"Held hostage on a fictional desert island in Dana Schutz's
imagination, Frank is painted repeatedly, his lonely shipwrecked life put under
the constant scrutiny of her brush. Obsessively reinventing his nature to her
whim; Dana Schutz's resulting paintings play out the dynamics of power struggle
between creator and invention. In Frank in the Desert, Frank is now a
hairy wild man, the do-gooder care worker or renegade ecologist
of female
fantasy. Dana Schutz paints her victim with sly familiarity: he's fed up with
the joke. Schutz retaliates by giving him sunburnt and blistered
arms."
All artists manipulate their art. By their hand, nothing becomes something. Even ready made art is manipulated - without a clever title the piece would still be simply utilitarian and artless. Thinking about paintings and objects in this way makes art more fun. Skill is important, but so is awareness and a sense of humor.
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