Progress of Beauty 2 / Mark Kostabi
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.238
- Title
- Progress of Beauty 2
- Artist
- Mark Kostabi
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1960
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1988
- Object Creation Place
- North America
- American
- Creation Place 1
- North America
- Creation Place 2
- American
- Style/Group/Movement
- business art
- Period
- Modern and contemporary
- Dimensions
- 30.5 cm x 23 cm (12 in. x 9 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- caricature
- Physical Description
- Line drawing in felt tip marker on ivory ~ 10x13” paper with shading. Woman’s arm and dress filled in completely with black, as well as a pane of the stained glass window that she holds. The wall, pitcher, parts of the woman’s head and shoulder covering and bodice, and cash register have been modeled in stylized “half tone” of zigzag separating white and black; shadows take the form of dense curlicues. The tablecloth bears splotches of black ink that were possibly made by blowing air on wet ink through a straw. The map has been filled in with ink drips and splatters.
- Subject Matter
- Based on the painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (1662) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In this work, Vermeer’s painting has been rendered in linear form: stained glass window, wall, shadow thrown by window, the woman’s head and shoulder covering and bodice, tablecloth, basin and pitcher, the map on the wall behind her; the jewelry box has been changed to a cash register.
- Kostabi describes himself as a “corporate artist” who makes “business art”—work in which market mechanisms, commodification and commercialization are not separated from the traditional realms of aesthetics and creativity. The woman with pitcher is rendered as the “everyman” figure in his paintings—smooth, featureless, tonally modeled form.
- Primary Keywords
- business
- copies (derivative objects)
- dutch
- figurative art
- illustration
- pitcher
- windows
- women
- Secondary Keywords
- architectural elements
- art genres
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- business and related functions
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- concepts in the arts
- containers
- containers by form
- derivative objects
- descriptors
- european
- european regions
- functions
- functions (activities)
- functions by specific context
- image-making processes and techniques
- netherlandish
- object genres
- objects we use
- openings (architectural elements)
- openings and opening components
- openings by form
- originals and derivative objects
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- vessels
- windows and window components
- Rights
- If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit https://umma.umich.edu/about/services/request-image/ for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2422 x 3243
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 2008/2.238
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.238/2008_2_238.jpg
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"Progress of Beauty 2; Mark Kostabi." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.238/2008_2_238.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.
