[ Artwork description: A circle in the center contains 2 ½ abstracted figures on the right side, filling ¾ of the page. One figure has red lips, the other has red eyes. Part of the circle is filled with a black color. The bottom left and right corner of this section includes small red shapes in a linear pattern. The center of the circle contains a box with a circular symbol consisting of black contour lines. The bottom depicts an erupting volcano, using a red line. Blue and black lines appear as an ocean wave pattern ]
Pierre Alechinsky
Untitled from the series Windows , 1977
Artwork Type: Prints
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Accession #: 19780571F
Department: London Arts Group
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , gift of Bertram Podell
Related Exhibition:
Introphantasm
Copyright: © Pierre Alechinsky
Object Label:
Show Object Label(s)Inspired by medieval pictorial illustrations, Alechinsky’s series Windows (1977) suggests narratives. The symbolically stylized imagery includes a trio of faces circling above a smoldering volcano and turbulent seas, recalling themes of creation and deconstruction through simplified linear gestures of storytelling. The icons maintain ambiguous expressions, leaving a narrative quality that is undirected, and the mark-making language plays against the work’s pictorial flatness. Alechinsky (b. 1927, Brussels, Belgium; lives and works in France) studied at École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium from 1944 to 1948 and is a devoted member of CoBrA, an international postwar avant-garde art movement.
–Introphantasm
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