Richard Prince was born on 1949 and is an American painter and photographer.
34 Facts About Richard Prince
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Richard Prince is regarded as "one of the most revered artists of his generation" according to The New York Times.
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Richard Prince was born on the 6th of August 1949, in the US-controlled Panama Canal Zone, now part of the Republic of Panama.
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Richard Prince later lived in the New England city of Braintree, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, and Provincetown on Cape Cod.
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Richard Prince was first interested in the art of the American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock.
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Richard Prince returned home and attended Nasson College in Maine, which he described as without grades or structure.
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Richard Prince has said that his attraction to New York was instigated by the famous photograph of Franz Kline gazing out the window of his 14th Street studio.
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In 1981 Richard Prince had his first West Coast solo exhibition at Jancar Kuhlenschmidt Gallery in Los Angeles.
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In late 2007, Prince had a retrospective at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, a comprehensive show hung in chronological order along the upward spiraling walls.
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Richard Prince has built up a large collection of Beat books and papers.
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Richard Prince owns several copies of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, including one inscribed to Kerouac's mother, one famously read on The Steve Allen Show, the original proof copy of the book and an original galley, as well as the copy owned by Neal Cassady, with Cassady's signature and marginal notes.
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Richard Prince had very little experience with photography, but he has said in interviews that all he needed was a subject, the medium would follow, whether it be paint and brush or camera and film.
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Richard Prince was charged with wrongfully appropriating 35 photographs made by Cariou.
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Richard Prince made 28 paintings that included images from Cariou's Yes Rasta book.
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The court found that the use by Richard Prince was not fair use, and Cariou's issue of liability for copyright infringement was granted in its entirety.
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In 2014, Richard Prince appropriated one of Emily Ratajkowski's Instagram posts without her consent, and included the image in a show at the Gagosian Gallery in New York.
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Richard Prince's series known as the Untitled Cowboys, produced from 1980 to 1992, and ongoing, is his most famous group of rephotographs.
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Richard Prince's Cowboys displayed men in boots and ten-gallon hats, with horses, lassos, spurs and all the fixings that make up the stereotypical image of a cowboy.
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Richard Prince's rephotographs led to his series known as the Gangs, which followed the same technique of appropriating images from magazines as the Cowboys did, but now the subjects moved from advertisements and mass media toward niches in American society.
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Richard Prince depicted the bizarre in subcultures such as the motorcycle-obsessed, hot rod enthusiasts, surfers, and heavy metal music fans.
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Richard Prince did not intend any distinct relationship between the "ganged" photographs.
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Richard Prince's made his first Joke painting circa 1985, in New York, when he was living in the back room of 303 Gallery located on Park Avenue South.
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Richard Prince realized that if he had walked into a gallery and had seen it hanging from the wall, he would have been envious.
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Richard Prince's jokes grew into more substantial works as he began to incorporate them with images, often pairing jokes with images that had no relevance with one another, creating an obscure relationship.
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Richard Prince put jokes among cartoons, often from The New Yorker.
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Richard Prince ordered classic vehicle car hoods from within custom car restoration networks and then used the hoods to cast Fiberglas molds which he washed in different colors.
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Richard Prince began to seek out canceled checks from famous figures in history ranging from Jack Kerouac to Andy Warhol.
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Richard Prince put these checks onto paint-covered canvases and often paired them with images of the individual they once belonged to.
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Richard Prince scanned the covers of the books on his computer and used inkjet printing to transfer the images to canvas, and then personalized the pieces with acrylic paint.
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Richard Prince makes the most direct treatment to the faces, hands and feet, which are bulged and distorted.
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In 2007, Richard Prince collaborated with the fashion designer Marc Jacobs on his Spring 2008 collection for the French label Louis Vuitton.
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In Untitled, a series of 27 works made between 2009 and 2011, Richard Prince printed black-and-white photos of Jackson Pollock taken by Hans Namuth on canvas and pasted grids of photographs showing Sid Vicious, Kate Moss, Stephanie Seymour and pornographic imagery on top.
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Richard Prince adds his own Pollock-style gestures in paint around the grids.
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Richard Prince's work has appeared numerous group exhibitions, including in Bienal de Sao Paulo, Whitney Biennial, Biennale of Sydney, Venice Biennale, and documenta 9.