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The Artist Project: John Currin

Feb 29, 2016 3 MINUTES
"It sets up rules and then contradicts them, and exists in a paradoxical state of real and unreal."

John Currin reflects on Ludovico Carracci's "The Lamentation" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
John Currin, born in 1962, is an American figurative painter.

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A painting by John Currin of three people around a table with a cooked whole turkey on a plate

John Currin (American, born 1962)

Thanksgiving, 2003

Oil on canvas; 68× 52 in. (172.9 × 132.3 cm). Tate, Lent by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of Marc Jacobs 2004 © John Currin

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