Cheap Print project explores the relationship between Vincent van Gogh’s influential paintings and contemporary photography/texture practice. My interest area in Vincent van Gogh’s paintings is their contemporary situation as ectypal images in various appearances (such as postcards, website images and facsimiles), which are cheap, fake and quickly-to-get. At the same time, the original paintings are rarely appeared in people’s sight. My work apply this situation by reconstructing Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night 1889” and “Sunflowers 1888” as photographs combined with textures. The photographs address Vincent’s paintings into ordinary life forms visually. Meanwhile, the textures as artist’s comments on the photographs suggest inexistent visual elements, which leave open narratives.

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