Richard Prince article about the painting Student Nurse?

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The Nurse painting are premised on medical romance novels, of a pulp fiction that has its own section in Richard Princes upstate library for this recent series the artist transfers enlarge ink-jet reproductions of book covers to canvas making out all supporting characters and text other than the littles to applying layers of smudge and dripping pigment. His lund palette emphalize then kitsch quality of the imgery aquamarine blues, emerald greens, sunset Oranges and dense blacks swirl around the nurse accestuating their crisp white uniforms and prim starched hats. Prince paints the mouth our with semitransparent white surgical masts which along with the skeins of dripping crimson red paint that seep over formed from "angles of mercy" to sinister hospital bandits terrifying in them proximity to blood body processes and death with each image prince conflates the various social and sexual stereotypes embodied by the figure of a nurse including good Samaritan naughty seductress old battleaxe and devil incarnate. He depicts her as both a victimizer and victim a vamp undone by desire.