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Art Nouveau Fish Bowl
1975 · Cut and pasted, printed and painted papers, opaque watercolor, with traces of graphite on paper
6 1/16 × 4 5/16 in. (15.4 × 10.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Joe Brainard
American, 1942–1994
Salem, AR, USA
Mixed Media
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13
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21
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The Stage Show
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Frank O'Hara/In Memory of My Feelings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967–1968
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Joe Brainard was an American artist and writer working across collage, drawing, and mixed media from the 1960s onward. His practice combined found imagery, text fragments, and a deliberately naïve or childlike formal vocabulary to create works that resisted conventional hierarchy between high and low materials. Active in New York's postwar experimental art scene, he moved fluidly between visual art and literary production, including artist's books and collaborative projects. His collages and drawings employed humor and domestic materials to interrogate notions of taste and artistic legitimacy.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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