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title: "RT4A Duty"
description: "Duty, 2022: an rt4a painting made as an Apple Music artist profile picture, after Marcel Duchamp's Self-Portrait in Profile (1957), keeping only a sky."
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updated: "2026-09-26T22:46:57+00:00"
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# RT4A Duty

RT4A Duty

Duty

2022

Acrylic and pencil on linen canvas

46 x 105 x 5 cm

RT4A2207

Courtesy of the artist

This piece arose from the requirement of a profile picture for artists on the Apple Music platform, which mandates a centred human face devoid of typefaces or promotional content, leading to the painting’s title and written text: Duty . Naturally, the Self-Portrait in Profile by Marcel Duchamp (1957) sprang to mind as the point of reference for a profile picture.

The final rendition retained only the backdrop sky from a portrait taken by a loved one, captured beside a pool at a palace on the French Riviera. The term Duty juxtaposes this ‘idyllic’ imagery with the obligation to produce images that reveal oneself by portraying a human figure and not just using any image or representation. Here, the choice was a portrait in negative, defined by what surrounds it (a sky).

Index

## Images

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## Related pages

- [Index](https://arthurfouray.systems/rt4a-index)

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