Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty) / Jene Highstein
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.232
- Title
- Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty)
- Artist
- Jene Highstein
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- (1942 - )
- Medium and Support
- graphite on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1987
- Object Creation Place
- North America
- American
- Creation Place 1
- North America
- Creation Place 2
- American
- Style/Group/Movement
- post-Minimalism
- Period
- Modern and contemporary
- Dimensions
- 56 cm x 62.8 cm (22 1/16 in. x 24 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- prepatory drawing
- Physical Description
- Heavily worked and reworked pencil drawing on large square of grid paper. Form is an ovoid shape with longitudinal and lateral lines, thinner than it is tall, fit into a rectangular box that represents the block of stone to be carved. At the bottom right of the sketched image, Highstein has noted the dimensions (7’ x 7’ x 2’) x 7. Seven blocks of granite at 2’ x 2’ x 7’ were meant to be stacked and carved into the proposed shape.
- Subject Matter
- In this early-stage proposal for a commission for General Mills Collection, Highstein works in his characteristic fusion of Minimalist and organic form, scoring an ovoid, egg-like shape with a grid. The original plan as shown here was to stack and carve seven blocks of Canadian black granite each at 2’ x 2’ x 7’ into the proposed shape. The company, however, delivered blocks from different sections of the quarry, which resulted in the blocks behaving erratically when carved. The design of the sculpture had to be improvised as it went along, and so the drawing doesn’t resemble the completed work very closely.
- Secondary Keywords
- visual arts
- abstraction
- animal material
- animal material by form or function
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- egg and egg components
- forms of expression
- inorganic material
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- materials
- materials by composition
- materials by origin
- objects we use
- people and culture
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- rock
- rock by form
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2978 x 2651
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 2008/2.232
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.232/2008_2_232.jpg
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"Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty); Jene Highstein." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.232/2008_2_232.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 27, 2024.