Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Gordon Cheung, born 1975, British
Title:
Jan Davidsz. De Heem I (Small New Order)
Date:
2015
Materials & Techniques:
Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsm paper
Dimensions:
Frame: 32 1/8 × 22 1/4 inches (81.6 × 56.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund, with additional support from Francis O’Brien
Copyright Status:
© The Artist
Accession Number:
B2016.3.1
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
botanical subject | still life | flowers | snail | wheat
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
Gallery Label:
Cheung’s recent work has explored the seventeenth-century “Tulipomania,” during which tulips became a trade commodity and sold for astronomical prices among Dutch investors before the market collapsed in 1637. Cheung plays on the Dutch tradition of still-life painting by basing his prints on digital images of old master paintings in the Rijksmuseum. He manipulates these images with an algorithm that distorts and corrupts them to highlight the artificiality of the original paintings. Gallery label for Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-11-01 – 2021-02-28)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:72425