Description:
pink ground with cut out image of bearded Lenin with black and yellow tie
Label Text:
Excerpted label text from the Curatorial Fellowship exhibition "Color in Containment," March 22 – April 29, 2018:
Except in cases of pure light, color requires a material vehicle in order to be visible in the work of art. How that materiality makes its presence known has a significant impact on how color reaches the viewers’ senses. Larry Rivers’ Untitled, a collage of screen print and lithography, is a playful abstraction of Lenin hovering over a flat background of carnation pink. The mark of the lithographic drawing and the cut edge of paper serve to both construct a figure and to contrast the void-like color plane that implies an expansion beyond the edge of the frame. - Margaret Wilson (M.F.A. Studio Art 2019) and Alison Ritacco (M.A. Art History 2019)
Subjects:
Lithography; screen prints Link to share this object record:
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