Description:
diamond with wood elements attached painted flat black; abstract
Label Text:
"I began to see things, almost anything along the street as art. I don't think you can touch a thing that cannot be rehabilitated into another life." Louise Nevelson
Louise Nevelson was a prolific artist whose distinctive black-box assemblages enlarged the vocabulary of modern sculpture. This work belongs to a series of over fifty wall reliefs titled "Mirror-Shadow" that the artist created when she was in her late eighties.
Mirror-Shadow XIII" is composed of an assortment of wood debris, intuitively arranged and fastened to a grid. In building her sculptures, Nevelson responded to forms rather than the identity of the particular elements. Here, the viewer's eye moves between open and closed spaces, the specific and the universal - revealing the artist's intention of creating a work that transcends the sum of its parts.
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nonrepresentational art Link to share this object record:
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