Abstract Form / Peter Voulkos
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1960/1.181
- Title
- Abstract Form
- Artist
- Peter Voulkos
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- (1924 - 2002)
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- New York School
- Dimensions
- 95 cm x 83 cm x 35 cm (37 3/8 in. x 32 11/16 in. x 13 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- vessel
- Secondary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Secondary Object Type
- abstract sculpture
- Physical Description
- Large stoneware abstract sculpture with two balanced lateral crescent-shaped forms branching off a central conical structure. Brown with loosely-painted broad brushstrokes in black and incised decoration of rows of dots in a “stitching-like” pattern
- Subject Matter
- Drawing inspiration from Japanese ceramics, American Abstract Expressionist painting, and improvisational jazz, Voulkos pushed the limits of his medium and moved beyond the realm of the ceramic vessel to a new level of sculpted and painted ceramic form.
- Inspired by the large-scale, unpremeditated form, free-energy and bold gestural strokes of abstract expressionism, his work became marked by mass and size, spontaneous form, and a bold, painterly use of glazes.
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- containers by form
- descriptors
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- international post-1945 styles and movements
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1019 x 989
- File Size
- 60 KB
- Record
- 1960/1.181
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"Abstract Form; Peter Voulkos." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1960-sl-1.181/1960_1.181.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 10, 2024.