Summer Watercolor #5 / Richard Tuttle

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Accession Number
2008/2.264
Title
Summer Watercolor #5
Artist Nationality
American
Artist Life Dates
Born 1941
Object Creation Date
1986
Object Creation Place
North America
American
Creation Place 1
North America
Creation Place 2
American
Style/Group/Movement
conceptual art
Dimensions
43.3 cm x 35.7 cm (17 1/16 in. x 14 1/16 in.)
Century
20th century
Primary Object Classification
Drawing
Primary Object Type
abstract
Physical Description
Watercolor of wavy lines in blue, green, pink, purple and orange on a sheet of paper, which is attached at top by two pieces of masking tape to a strip of Styrofoam, making the drawing “float,” “hang.”
Subject Matter
Although most of Tuttle’s prolific artistic output since he began his career in the 1960s has taken the form of three-dimensional objects, he commonly refers to his work as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his practice. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice (defined by grand heroic gestures, monumental scale, and the ‘macho’ materials of steel, marble, and bronze) and instead creates small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble, even ‘pathetic’ materials such as paper, rope, string, cloth, wire, twigs, cardboard, bubble wrap, nails, Styrofoam, and plywood. Influences on his work include calligraphy (he has a strong interest in the intrinsic power of line), poetry, and language. (http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/tuttle/index.html, accessed 1 Feb 2010)
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2100 x 2793
File Size
587 KB
Record
2008/2.264
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"Summer Watercolor #5; Richard Tuttle." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.264/2008_2_264.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.
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