Award
2004
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2004
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Award is a 2004 by Peter Kennard, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Peter Kennard’s print *Award* from 2004 uses war medals to question conflict. The medals are torn and distressed, scanned until the images blur and fade. This isn’t just art. It’s raw protest. The artists threw rags and flags on the scanner, then bled on it. The process feels violent, like the war it protests. Look up this artist next: Kennard, Peter
The artwork is a digital print created by scanning a war medal and its ribbon, which is marked by distressing such as shredding and fraying. The ribbon features the stars and stripes of the United States flag, while the medal itself is replaced with an image of the hoods worn by prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. This print is an enlarged version of one of the plates from a portfolio addressing the 2003 Iraq War and its consequences.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Peter Kennard (born 17 February 1949) is a London-born and based photomontage artist and Professor of Political Art at the Royal College of Art.
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