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Work Type:painting
Date of work:1991
Materials:medium: oil

support: board

Measurements:height: 51 cm

width: 47 cm

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:photorealism, appropriation
Technique:painting
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
‘Gillian Potkins paints what appear to be scenes from photographs, under grand and nonspecific titles. Then one section of each image is repainted in magnified form. The difference between the two is so great that one's faith in photography as a vehicle for truth is seriously shaken.’
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Source:Morgan, S., “BT New Contemporaries”, exhibition catalogue, 1993
Date of source:1993