Untitled Cube / Alvin D. Loving
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.25
- Title
- Untitled Cube
- Artist
- Alvin D. Loving
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1935-2005
- Medium and Support
- acrylic on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1969
- 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
- optical art
- Inscription
- Inscribed verso c.: UNTITED [sic] CUBE / Alvin D. Loving Jr. / 69
- Dimensions
- 102.8 cm x 88.2 cm (40 1/2 in. x 34 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- abstract
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- shaped canvas
- Physical Description
- A framework three-dimensional cube sits at an angle so that one of its corners appears to protrude from the center of the piece. The cube is gray, with dark gray shading on the shadowed edges, and dark and light yellow shading on the lit edges. The canvas is cut to the dimensions of the cube.
- Subject Matter
- Loving was intrigued by the history of perspective in painting and wanted to create a piece in which the vanishing point for the perspective is in front of the painted surface, toward the viewer, rather than within the surface. The result is a representation of depth that seems to protrude from the surface rather than creating the illusion of space inside the canvas.
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- acrylic paintings
- cubes (geometric figures)
- geometric abstraction
- geometric shapes
- inverted perspective
- minimal
- op art
- Secondary Keywords
- visual arts
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- forms of expression
- genres
- geometric concepts
- geometric figures
- image-making processes and techniques
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- mathematical concepts
- modern and contemporary art
- objects we use
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- people and culture
- perspective
- perspective and shading techniques
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- processes and techniques
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- scientific concepts
- solids (geometric)
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- visual and tactile
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1157 x 725
- File Size
- 50 KB
- Record
- 1969/2.25
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1969-sl-2.25/1969_2.25.jpg
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"Untitled Cube; Alvin D. Loving." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1969-sl-2.25/1969_2.25.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.
