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Louise Hopkins

2/7, 1997

Description

Maker

  • Louise Hopkins, b. 1965, English

Title

2/7

Year

1997

Medium

Oil on reverse of patterned fabric

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil

Supports

  • fabric

Dimensions

Diptych, overall: 92.7 x 130.8 cm (36 x 51 1/2 inches) (overall)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

written on back: "Hopkins" "Top"

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art

Object Number

2007.18

Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 8

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Made in the UK

Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Multi-Part Art

July 11, 2008 - March 29, 2009

This diptych was made by reversing a floral printed commercial fabric, stretching it, and applying numerous layers of a translucent medium. Some of the printed pattern is then carefully painted over in brown so that the result looks quite different from the original fabric, and the prepared but unpainted areas take on a ghostly aura. Hopkins fuses fine-art technique with a decorative every­day material that might be considered in bad taste, as opposed to one in a more purified Modernist style. It recalls carpets, upholstered furniture, wallpaper, and draperies typical of British bed-and-breakfast establishments characterized by multiple floral patterns seemingly in conflict with one another.

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