Dimensions: support: 1603 x 1901 x 45 mm
Copyright: © DACS 2014 | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is René Daniëls' "New Dutch Herring" at the Tate. The watercolor and gouache painting depicts many fish. What's striking is the immediacy and almost casual feel, belying the large scale. What story do you think the materials tell? Curator: The work engages with the history of Dutch still life and its relationship to global trade. Consider the materiality: watercolor, a relatively inexpensive medium, used on a large scale. Does this elevate or subvert the subject, herring, a once-cheap food now a delicacy? It prompts questions about labor, value, and consumption. Editor: That's fascinating, the medium and the subject matter in conversation. Curator: Exactly! And how that impacts our understanding of "high" and "low" art.
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tate about 2 months ago
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tate about 2 months ago
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With New Dutch Herring René Daniëls deployed the formal qualities characteristic of much of his work: a simple, even haphazard, composition, the use of a limited range of bright colours, and an open and sketchy handling of paint. Parts of the acrylic priming on the support are exposed, and the artist’s underdrawing in charcoal is visible in places. This large work, in which crudely-painted fish form a pattern that covers almost the entire canvas, can be seen as marking a mid-point in the artist’s progression from figuration towards the abstraction of his later works.
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