Glasses (Double Twice Group) / Lucio Pozzi
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.250
- Title
- Glasses (Double Twice Group)
- Artist
- Lucio Pozzi
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born Italy, 1935
- Medium and Support
- graphite, gouache, charcoal and acrylic on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1973
- Object Creation Place
- North America
- American
- Creation Place 1
- North America
- Creation Place 2
- American
- Style/Group/Movement
- conceptual art
- Period
- Modern and contemporary
- Dimensions
- 38 cm x 35.6 cm (14 15/16 in. x 14 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- study
- Physical Description
- One of four paintings in the series Glasses (Double Twice Group). Skinny upright rectangle with rounded edges in dark pencil at center, filled in with sheer orange wash. Translucent mint green wash covers most of the orange, except for a strip visible at the top. The joining of two brushstrokes creates a vertical line of more pigmented mint green down the center. The colored areas extend beyond the penciled-in borders.
- Subject Matter
- The title suggests that this abstract watercolor sketch is a study of a glass of water abstracted into elemental shapes and color effects. As one reviewer explains, “All of Pozzi's work ultimately relates to the language of painting…. [E]ach thing that he makes, in addition to being a self-contained entity, is also, in some sense, a fragment, a part of an ongoing process.” (Richard Kalina, “Lucio Pozzi at John Weber,” Art in America, Dec 1996)
- Going against the descriptiveness of the title, however, Pozzi has stated: “My painting doesn’t start from any premise other than the analysis of its own elementary characteristics. It does not include in its combination of elements outside premises such as mathematics, vegetation, primitive cultures, modern publicity, traditional symbolism, the esoteric or the occult. It is not at the service of anything, it doesn’t represent anything.” (cited in Bret Waller, Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art)
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- drinking vessels
- european
- european styles and periods
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- modern european fine arts styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
- objects we use
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- paintings by material or technique
- people and culture
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1461 x 2095
- File Size
- 432 KB
- Record
- 2008/2.250
- Link to this Item
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"Glasses (Double Twice Group); Lucio Pozzi." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.250/2008_2_250.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 04, 2024.