Nudes ree07
The source images in Ruff’s “nudes” series were culled from the sea of pornography that floods the Internet. The artist, who often works with appropriated imagery, downloaded the pictures and manipulated them on his computer, intensifying colors, blurring outlines, and greatly enlarging the scale. At once visually ravishing and provocatively blunt, the photographs address the collapse between public and private in contemporary culture as well as the tradition of voyeuristic delectation inspired by the many pictures of female flesh hanging in this or any other art museum.
Artwork Details
- Title: Nudes ree07
- Artist: Thomas Ruff (German, born Zell am Harmersbach, 1958)
- Date: 2000
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: Frame: 110.2 × 136.2 × 4.4 cm (43 3/8 × 53 5/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, and Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2000
- Object Number: 2000.443
- Rights and Reproduction: © Thomas Ruff
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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