[ Colors: ultramarine blue, red-orange, black
An abstract image consisting of a giant black oval shape inside of a square, which takes up approximately ¾ of the page. The corners of the square that the circle does not touch, contains small red lines in a linear pattern. Inside the oval itself, there is a smaller square inside a smaller square, which is not shaded. There appears to be a symbol in the center of the small square. The bottom quarter of the page is broken into 3 more sections using ]
Pierre Alechinsky
Untitled from the series Windows , 1977
Artwork Type: Prints
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Accession #: 19780571G
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
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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.
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