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| Maker(s): | Rodchenko, Aleksandr (attributed to) | | Culture: | Russian (1891-1956)
| | Title: | Compass Composition
| | Date Made: | 1915
| | Type: | Drawing
| | Materials: | Pen and ink and black ink on medium weight soft, textured off-white paper
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 16 15/16 x 10 5/16 in.; 43.0 x 26.2 cm
| | Accession Number: | AC 2001.76
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Thomas P. Whitney (Class of 1937)
| | Museum Collection: | Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Rodchenko started his career in the ornamental and stylizing aesthetic environment of Symbolism and the World of Art. This drawing stands at the beginning of the artist’s new orientation toward experiments with purely pictorial elements. It is one of a series of nonobjective compass-and-ruler drawings in which he explores the expressive possibilities of mechanically created lines and their relationship to flat areas of black or color. The interplay of white and black areas creates a dynamic effect and an ambivalent interchange of positive and negative forms and spaces.
BJ, 2014
Tags:
abstract; nonrepresentational art; circles; curves Subjects:
Curves; Circle; Art, Abstract; nonrepresentational art Link to share this object record:
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