Red Deb
Object Details
- Artist
- Deborah Kass, born 1952
- Sitter
- Deborah Kass, born 1952
- Exhibition Label
- Born San Antonio, Texas
- Deb Kass has been one of the most consistently innovative and productive artists of the post-Pop era. Early in her career, Kass, following Andy Warhol, became interested in appropriation: adapting and changing other works of art to elaborate on—and change—the art historical tradition. In Yellow Deb, Red Deb, Silver Deb, and Blue Deb, she models her self-portrait on Warhol’s screenprints of celebrities surrounded by resplendently colored backgrounds. While in some respects the self-portraits closely imitate Warhol’s 1964 print of Elizabeth Taylor, Kass’s subtle shifts change the meaning to reflect her own themes: her gender, Jewishness, and sexuality. In repurposing Warhol’s style, she challenges the male-dominated art world; in choosing Taylor, she plays on the actress’s WASP background and conversion to Judaism; and in borrowing the heavy makeup, she implies an ironic, hypergirlish reference to her lesbianism.
- Yellow Deb, Red Deb, Silver Deb, Blue Deb
- Deborah Kass nacida en 1952
- Nacida en San Antonio, Texas
- Deb Kass ha sido una de las artistas más coherentes de la era post-Pop en lo que a innovación y productividad se refiere. Temprano en su carrera, y siguiendo los pasos de Andy Warhol, Kass se interesó en la apropiación: adaptar y alterar obras de otros artistas como medio de comentar, y cambiar, la historia tradicional del arte. En Yellow Deb, Red Deb, Silver Deb y Blue Deb, la artista elabora un autorretrato al estilo de las serigrafías de celebridades que hacía Warhol, con magníficos fondos de colores vivos. Si bien estas dos obras imitan en ciertos aspectos la serigrafía de Elizabeth Taylor hecha por Warhol en 1964, las modificaciones sutiles de Kass logran cambiar el significado para reflejar sus propios temas: su género, su herencia judía y su sexualidad. Al dar otro sentido al estilo de Warhol, Kass lanza un desafío al mundo del arte, dominado por los hombres. Por otra parte, la semejanza con Taylor le permite jugar con el trasfondo anglosajón protestante de la actriz y su conversión al judaísmo, y al reproducir el intenso maquillaje hace una irónica alusión a su lesbianismo.
- Autorretratos
- Serigrafías, 2012
- Adquisición gracias al Abraham and Virginia Weiss Charitable Trust, Amy y Marc Meadows
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Abraham and Virginia Weiss Charitable Trust, Amy and Marc Meadows, in honor of Wendy Wick Reaves
- 2012
- Object number
- C/NPG.2013.75.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- ©2014 Deborah Kass/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Type
- Medium
- Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 61.5 × 61.5 cm (24 3/16 × 24 3/16")
- Frame: 71.1 × 70 × 5.1 cm (28 × 27 9/16 × 2")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Self-portrait
- Deborah Kass: Female
- Deborah Kass: Arts & Culture\Visual Arts\Artist\Painter
- Deborah Kass: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Activist
- Deborah Kass: Visual arts awards\Rome Prize
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_C_NPG.2013.75.1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4cf149ccc-d97f-44db-a3af-9a01c1dbb328
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