Untitled
Artist: Joel Shapiro (American, born 1941)
Date: 1987
Dimensions:
77 x 59 3/4 in.
Medium: Charcoal, chalk and pastel on paper
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1988.42
Label Text:Joel Shapiro, who lives and works in New York City, emerged as a major figure in sculpture and drawing during the 1970s. Shapiro’s geometrically-grounded art “teeters” between the core issues of Modernism: abstraction and figuration. The geometric shapes in this drawing vaguely suggest a disjointed figure. The torso is at the bottom, with the limbs detached and scattered.
This drawing is a monumental study of color, shape, forms in 2-dimensional space, geometry, abstraction, constructivism, and the nature of the drawing process. Shapiro drew the rectangles as dense, solid masses. In the space around them are tell-tale marks of rubbed or smudged charcoal that contribute to the overall tonality, and erasures that create highlights. The result is a drawing charged with the energetic hand-marks that went into its making.
This drawing is a monumental study of color, shape, forms in 2-dimensional space, geometry, abstraction, constructivism, and the nature of the drawing process. Shapiro drew the rectangles as dense, solid masses. In the space around them are tell-tale marks of rubbed or smudged charcoal that contribute to the overall tonality, and erasures that create highlights. The result is a drawing charged with the energetic hand-marks that went into its making.
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