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Overpaint

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O`ver`paint´
v. t.1.To color or describe too strongly.


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Rupert Featherstone, director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge, which undertook technical investigations into the Cobbe portrait, admitted that in hindsight, it was unfortunate conservators had removed the overpaint.
In this case, the UV scan revealed discoloured overpaint extending along the entire left edge of the painting.
Derived from the covers of pulp novels, Prince photographically reproduces these images on canvas and then overpaints them, giving them the transgressive frisson of medical fetishism.
 
 
 
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