Description: Formal portrait of a Tatlin, Russian Constructivist, about 1920 in red ink with a small black and white image in the bottom right corner composed of vertical lines.
Label Text: Excerpt from wall label, for the exhibition “The Unexpected Encounters of Looking Again,” November 28 - March 15, 2007: Flavin Minimalist sculpture from the 1960’s focused on the primacy of the object and on the use of non-traditional materials for sculpture. Instead of marble and bronze, Flavin turned to store-bought fluorescent lights as the primary medium for his work. In this later piece, Flavin utilizes the silkscreen process to pay homage to the artist Vladmir Tatlin, the leading figure of the Constructivist movement that developed in Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Within this silkscreen, which is primarily a portrait of Tatlin, Flavin superimposes an image of his own work, a series of light sculptures titled “Monument” to V. Tatlin. Flavin’s work directly references Tatlin’s Model for a Monument to the Third International, 1919-1920.
Flavin’s piece is part of The New York Collection for Stockholm which presents a slice of the 1960’s New York scene through prints by many of the foremost artists of the twentieth century. The portfolio was assembled in 1973 by Experiments in Art and Technology, executed at Styria Studios in NY and contains work donated by the artists. - Rebecca Karp (M.A. '08)
Subjects: screen prints Link to share this object record: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=UM+1977.1.7 |