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- Accession Number
- 2006/1.153
- Title
- Death of Chatterton, from "Pictures of Chocolate"
- Artist
- Vik Muniz
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1961
- Medium and Support
- Cibachrome mounted on aluminum
- Object Creation Date
- 2000
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Dimensions
- 130.81 cm x 171.61 cm x 5.08 cm (51 1/2 in. x 67 9/16 in. x 2 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification and Primary Object Type
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Photographabstract
- Physical Description
- Photograph of a drawing executed using chocolate syrup on a piece of white plexi-glass.
- Subject Matter
- The subject, composition and title are borrowed from a painting by Henry Wallis entitled “The Death of Chatterton” painted in 1856, which depicts the dead body of a teenage boy named Thomas Chatterton, an English poet who committed suicide in 1770 by arsenic at the age of 17 and served as an icon of unacknowledged genius for the Romantics, who valued the achievements of misunderstood heroic individuals.
- Muniz translates Henry Wallis’ painting into chocolate, “drawing” an exact reproduction of the work in chocolate syrup on white plexi-glass and quickly photographing it before the unstable medium disintegrated.
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- boys
- deaths
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- romantic
- suicides
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