Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Yingchao Chen
Decorated gessoed canvas
Painting
2021
oil on linen
24x30in
Museums often take designs from local paper makers and sell them on postcards which are massively machine-produced. This is a reproduction of hand-made items in an industrial version. Decorated gessoed canvas is a reproduction of a postcard that I bought at a museum in Florence. It is done on a gessoed canvas with no background color. Putting the same floral pattern in a different setting- made by an art student, how does it change the meaning of the content on the canvas. I want to explore what meaning the floral pattern carries in an art-making setting compare to the local craft stores or museums. This work raises questions about location, reproduction, and their relationship with people.