Gio Ponti's Mirror / Lucio Pozzi
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.254
- Title
- Gio Ponti's Mirror
- Artist
- Lucio Pozzi
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born Italy, 1935
- Medium and Support
- watercolor on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1993
- 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
- 31 cm x 46 cm (12 3/16 in. x 18 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- abstract
- Secondary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Secondary Object Type
- abstract
- Physical Description
- A small, squat rectangle divided into two halves is centered on a large sheet of paper. The left half is a blue wash with black marks; the right half is a light gray wash with blue marks.
- Subject Matter
- This geometric, linear drawing is likely an abstract portrait of Gio Ponti. A central figure in Italy's post-war design renaissance, Ponti was a poet, painter, industrial designer and founding editor of Domus magazine as well as an architect. [http://designmuseum.org/design/gio-ponti]
- 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
- associated concepts
- european
- european styles and periods
- geometric concepts
- geometric figures
- mathematical concepts
- modern european fine arts styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
- objects we use
- people and culture
- plane figures
- polygons
- scientific concepts
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3433 x 2313
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 2008/2.254
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.254/2008_2_254.jpg
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"Gio Ponti's Mirror; Lucio Pozzi." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.254/2008_2_254.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 02, 2024.