Untitled
1988
watercolor
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1988
watercolor
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1988 watercolor by David Wojnarowicz, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This looks like a ripped-up supermarket ad with bold red text. Four giant crabs are crawling over it, each carrying a tiny, blurry picture of a face inside their shells. The words “COUPONS,” “COCOA BUFF,” and “$1.89” are still legible, but the rest is messy. The faces inside the crabs look like old postcards, smudged and faded. The artist used real ads and scribbled over them with paint and markers. Check out David Wojnarowicz to see how he mixed everyday stuff with deeper ideas.
David Michael Wojnarowicz ( VOY-nə-ROH-vitch; September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene.
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