Untitled (Ocean with Cross, no. 1).
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Title |
Untitled (Ocean with Cross, no. 1). |
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Alternative Title |
Untitled (Ocean with Cross, #1). |
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Creator |
Celmins, Vija (American painter and sculptor, born 1939) |
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Date |
1971 |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Style/Period |
Contemporary
Postmodern |
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Subject |
Seascape drawings
Seascapes
Seas
Oceans
Water |
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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) |
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Material |
Graphite on acrylic ground on paper
Graphite pencils
Paper (fiber product)
Pencils (drawing and writing equipment) |
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Technique |
Drawing (image-making) |
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Work Type |
Drawings
Graphite drawings
Pencil works |
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Repository |
Edward R. Broida Trust Collection |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.217, fig.112). |
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Rights |
Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the artist/Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 556-33.jpg |
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