Portrait (Hals)
Jason Salavon
2009 · Chromogenic print · Photographs
Using software he designs himself, Salavon produces typological averages of related images such as Playboy centerfolds, high-school yearbook portraits, and Old Master paintings. To create this photograph, which was inspired by the Metropolitan Museum’s Dutch Golden Age painting galleries, the artist gathered high-quality reproductions of portraits by Frans Hals. He then used an open-source programming language to generate the paintings’ mathematical average. The result is an impressionistic composite that reveals the hidden norm lurking within the Dutch master’s oeuvre.
- Artist
- Jason Salavon
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2010
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