Art of the Fugue (Art de la fugue)
Artist: Judit Reigl (Hungarian, 1923-2020)
Date: 1982
Dimensions:
87 x 124 inches (221 x 315 cm)
Medium: Enamel, acrylic, and powdered bronze on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: The 2019 TMA Board of Directors recognizes this work in honor of Director Brian Kennedy and his efforts to both develop strengths and expand directions in the permanent collection. Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number: 2016.74
Label Text:I paint where I live and my implement is my body.
—Judit Reigl
After escaping her native Hungary from behind the Iron Curtain in 1950, Judit Reigl settled in Paris where she could exercise her artistic freedom. Her development as an artist progressed from surrealist imagery to the figurative form. Ultimately, she found herself drawn to the same mindset of the American Abstract Expressionists.
Reigl viewed the painter’s body as a mechanism to translate vibrations and movement into a physical representation onto the canvas. This theme has dominated her art over the last 50 years of her career. While listening to Bach and Mozart on the radio station French Musique, Reigl transformed the precise musical notes into concrete visual signs. Under the influence of music, she has produced a variety of works ranging from small ink-on-paper pieces to canvases on a monumental scale, like this example.
—Judit Reigl
After escaping her native Hungary from behind the Iron Curtain in 1950, Judit Reigl settled in Paris where she could exercise her artistic freedom. Her development as an artist progressed from surrealist imagery to the figurative form. Ultimately, she found herself drawn to the same mindset of the American Abstract Expressionists.
Reigl viewed the painter’s body as a mechanism to translate vibrations and movement into a physical representation onto the canvas. This theme has dominated her art over the last 50 years of her career. While listening to Bach and Mozart on the radio station French Musique, Reigl transformed the precise musical notes into concrete visual signs. Under the influence of music, she has produced a variety of works ranging from small ink-on-paper pieces to canvases on a monumental scale, like this example.
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