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Title	Untitled (Ocean with Cross, no. 1).
Alternative Title	Untitled (Ocean with Cross, #1).
Creator	Celmins, Vija (American painter and sculptor, born 1939)
Date	1971
Cultural Context	American North American
Style/Period	Contemporary Postmodern
Theme	Drawings (visual works) Seascapes Seas Oceans Water Bodies of water Distance
Subject	Drawings Graphite drawings Pencil works Seascape drawings Seascapes Seas Oceans Water Bodies of water
Description	"Born in Riga in 1938, and transplanted to America in 1949, Celmins has only recently become well known. Her strangely detached, unlocated subjects suggest a radical retreat from the concerns of modern life. Perhaps they relate to her early rootlessness. However, in the 1960s her 'photopaintings' often dwelt on highly specific, violent incidents. Fire was often involved, as in Burning Man (1966), showing a man in flames escaping a car crash. Her expanses of water possibly suggest such horrors have been exorcized." (Caption, p.217); "Celmins's drawings of the late 1960s and early 1970s dealt with issues of proximity and distance. Taking photographs of limitless phenomena, such as the ocean or the star-filled sky, as her models, she transplanted such ungraspable subjects into finite blocks of graphic description, which call for close-up inspection." (Excerpt, p.215)
Material	Graphite on acrylic ground on paper Graphite pencils Paper (fiber product) Pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
Technique	Drawing (image-making)
Work Type	Drawings Graphite drawings Pencil works
Repository	Edward R. Broida Trust Collection
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.217, fig.112).
Rights	Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the artist/Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 556-33.jpg
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