A collection of artists that use that create new art from their previous work or that modify existing materials including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Gerhard Richter. This deck is from the class “Experimental Image-Making” at Minneapolis College of Art & Design.

1. Course
Experimental Image-Making
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Instructor
Namdev Hardisty
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Artists using their own work as
source material
2 Existing works modified by artists
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Strategies for remixing images
Last Updated
February 2014

2. Course
Experimental Image-Making
Instructor
Namdev Hardisty
1
Artists using their own work as
source material

3. Willem
de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a member of the
highly-influential first wave of Abstract
Expressionists the movement that brought an
American edge to painting—raw, pure, and
obsessed with originality. He used various
forms of collage to find new ways to make
images experimenting with cutting up existing
works and reconfiguring them or making
studies to collage with later.
American,
born Netherlands
b. 1932
d. 1997

4. Willem de Kooning
Red Eye
1955; 16.3 x 14 in; oil and collage on board

5. Willem de Kooning
Black and White Rome S
1959; 39 1/4 by 55 3/4 in.;
enamel and collage on
paper, double-sided

6. Franz Kline
Kline was another first-generation Abstract
Expressionist who was known for large stark
canvasses that looked like calligraphy painted
with house-painter’s brushes. In fact, Kline
began all his paintings as small, quick gesture
drawings executed on phonebook pages, a
cheap, abundant and none-too-precious
resource. Collaging existing paintings was
part of his practice throughout the 1950s
but his phonebook collages created from
failed drawings are especially interesting.
American
b. 1910
d. 1962

7. Franz Kline
Untitled
c.1948; 58.6 x 76.2 in; oil and paper
collage on board

8. Franz Kline
Untitled
c.1956; 10 7/8 x 8 5/8 in;
ink on telephone book page
Franz Kline
Study for Clockface
1950; 11.2 x 9.25 in;
ink on telephone book page

9. Franz Kline
Untitled II,
c.1952; oil and ink on paper,
collage on board

10. Franz Kline
Black, White, Brown
c.1959; 11 5/16 x 8 1/4 in;
oil and ink on paper, collage on board

11. GERHARD
RICHTER
Gerhard Richter is known for a life-long concern
with perception that he’s explored through
painting: how the rendering of an image affects
its meaning, the ways that abstract images
remind us of other things, the haze of memory.
He’s known in particular for working within
multiple styles simultaneously from
photo-realism to heroic abstraction and without
end. One such project are the Painted
Photographs which are exactly what they sound
like—photographic prints that have been painted
German
b. 1932

12. Photographs which are exactly what they sound
like—photographic prints that have been painted
over using one of Richter’s trademark
techniques. In his artists books he explore pieces
of his paintings whether photographic details of
varying perspectives and depth of field or the
remixing of one painting in Patterns. Divided,
Mirrored, Repeated.

13. Gerhard Richter
Ohne Title
1989; 10 cm x 15 cm;
oil on colour photograph

14. Gerhard Richter
Ohne Title (7. April-05)
2005; 14.8 cm x 10 cm;
oil on colour photograph

15. Gerhard Richter
Ohne Titel (25. März 03)
2003; 10 cm x 15 cm; oil on colour photograph

16. Gerhard Richter
Ohne Title (19.2.92)
1992; 14.5 cm x 10 cm; oil on colour photograph

17. Gerhard Richter
Ohne Title (8.9.1994)
1994; 14.8 cm x 10 cm; oil on colour photograph

18. Patterns. Divided, Mirrored, Repeated
2012; artists book
“The artist’s book documents Gerhard Richter’s
experiment of taking an image of his original
Abstract Painting [CR: 724-4] and dividing it
vertically into strips: first 2, then 4, 8, 16, 32,
64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, up to 4096 strips.
This process (twelve stages of division) results
in 8190 strips, each of which is the height of
the original image. With each stage of division
the strips become progressively thinner (a strip
of the 12th division is 0.08 mm). Endless more
divisions are possible, but they would soon only
become visible by enlargement. Each strip is
then mirrored and repeated, which results in
patterns. The number of repetitions increases
with each stage of division in order to make
patterns of consistent size. The result of 238
listed patterns is published on 238 double page
images.”
—from GerhardRichter.com

19. This slide and next:
Gerhard Richter
Page from Patterns. Divided, Mirrored, Repeated
2012; artists book

21. War Cut
2004; artists book
War Cut, designed by Gerhard Richter focuses on
Abstract Painting [CR: 648-2] of 1987, which is
located at Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris.
In May 2002, Gerhard Richter took detailed
photographs of the picture, in which dark
colours dominate and whose rather rough
appearance is striking.
Two years later, Richter takes the photographs
up again for his book project War Cut. 216 closeup photographs are juxtaposed to 216 texts from
the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeinen
Zeitung of 20th and 21th March 2003, the beginning
of the Iraq War. Whereas Gerhard Richter assembles
the pictures following aesthetical principles, the
texts are mainly printed in their chronological order.
—from GerhardRichter.com

23. PETER
SAVILLE
British art director most famous for designing
record sleeves for Factory Records in the
late 70s and early 80s including those for
Joy Division and New Order. Saville was known
for “quoting” art and design history through
pastiche and appropriation. He began creating
“Waste Paintings” in the 1990s—heavily
processed abstractions that used his now
iconic designs as source material.
British
b. 1955

24. Peter Saville
Joy 3 (from the series Waste Paintings)
1998–2008

25. Peter Saville
Joy 1 (from the series Waste Paintings)
1998–2008

26. Peter Saville
Made of Waste II
(from the series Waste Paintings)
1998–2008

27. source material
2 Existing works modified by artists
3
Strategies for remixing images
(beyond the obvious)

28. RICHARD
PRINCE
Prince is a pioneer of “appropriation art”
turning everything from car hoods to the
Marlboro Man into extremely visual and
powerful images. His paintings almost always
start with a certain genre of image that is then
modified to change the tone and meaning. His
Tiffany series uses blown-up spreads from The
New York Times as a surface to explore while
masking out virtually all information besides a
Tiffany Co. ad in the top-right corner.
American,
born Panama
b. 1949

29. Richard Prince
Even Lower Manhattan (from the series Tiffany)
2007; 65 1/2 x 80 in.; ink jet and acrylic on canvas

30. Richard Prince
Town Without Pity (from the series Tiffany)
2007; 65 1/2 x 80 in.; ink jet and acrylic on canvas

31. Richard Prince
Surf Safari Nurse (from the series Nurses)
2007–8; 90 x 54 in.; ink jet and acrylic on canvas

32. ROBERT
RAUSCHENBERG
Rauschenberg revolutionized art many times
over from using his bed as canvas to
incorporating an angora goat into a painting
and obliterating the line between art and
performance. Still his most well-known piece
might be Erased Willem de Kooning Drawing,
an investigation into making art through
subtraction. After some persuading de Kooning
that it wasn’t an insult he was given a densely
worked on drawing to erase. It took two months.
American
b. 1925
d. 2008

33. Robert Rauschenberg
Erased de Kooning Drawing
1953; 25 1/4 x 21 3/4 x 1/2 in.; traces of drawing
media on paper with label and gilded frame

34. 3
Strategies for remixing images
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35. 3
Strategies for remixing images
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1. Paint Over
2. Photocopy
3. Scan
4. Monoprint
5. Turn into a brush
6. Trace
7. Burn
8. Fold
9. Collage onto
10. Cut-up
1
1. Turn into an object
12. Cut through
13. Tape over
14. Film
15. Hide
16. Run over
17. Bury
18. Weather
19. Lose
20. Turn into a surface
21. Wear

36. Last Updated
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This presentation was produced for Namdev
Hardisty’s Experimental Image-Making
workshop at Minneapolis College of Art
Design. A 10-week visual arts course
investigating chance operations, gesture,
speed and quantity produced by MCAD
Continuing Education and The MVA Studio.
For more information visit the-mva.com/teach
and mcad.edu.