[Male Portrait]
Brotmeyer is a droll collagist who works with a combination of approaches including postmodern appropriation, caricature, and Duchampian "assisted ready-made" procedures. Here, starting with a typical commercial photographic portrait of the 1890s, Brotmeyer added paint crosshatching à la Jasper Johns, rabbit fur, and Albrecht Durer’s monogram. The wry additions transform the "cabinet card" likeness into a refreshing and thought-provoking mixed-media portrait that comments on the stylistic language of both anonymous nineteenth-century studio photography and name-brand artists.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Male Portrait]
- Artist: Gary Brotmeyer (American, born 1946)
- Date: 1985
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.1050
- Rights and Reproduction: © Gary S. Brotmeyer 2014
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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