Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Yingchao Chen

July 2015

I commissioned First Art Gallery to make a copy of my landscape painting from the calendar. After the copy arrived, I made another copy of the painting from First Art Gallery, and the final painting was photoshopped into a calendar of July 2015 when the original source image was from. This piece aims to investigate how objects function beyond their immediate visual and physical state of being. A calendar’s value is tied to a person’s visual interaction with it. The image was hand-painted to emphasize its visual value as a calendar while testing the boundaries of art and craft, marketplace, and gallery. On the other hand, the process of reproduction of the same image introduces the topic of the value of the original and the copies. An object that was initially meant for function, was then re-branded as art through various forms of media.