Ball Figures I / Jonathan Lasker
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.43
- Title
- Ball Figures I
- Artist
- Jonathan Lasker
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born 1948
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on Rives BFK Paper
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- 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
- Gift of Robert and Janet Miller
- Dimensions
- 57.5 cm x 76 cm (22 5/8 in. x 29 15/16 in.)
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- lithograph
- Physical Description
- This is a horizontal print with black, pink and green colors on a white background. There are pink and green rings covering the lower portion of the work. Over these are black lines that connect some of these rings and a group of five black circles filled with squiggly lines.
- Subject Matter
- Jonathan Lasker states: In the case of this series of lithographs, which I call “Ball Figures,” round knots of scrawly black lines form ball shapes which are abutted next to one another to make forms which have human, animal, or plant associations. Also, in the backgrounds of these prints there are circles in alternating colors. These circles make patterns which partially fill the page ending in boundaries in the middle of the page forming horizon lines. In spots, groupings of circles are ringed-in by black lines which create subdominant figures in relation to the more pronounced “ball figures.”
- The picture which forms is arrived at by the viewer interpretively rather than literally." Source Tamarind Institute.
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- components by specific context
- illustrations
- illustrations by form
- images and ornament
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- layout features
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- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3388 x 2485
- File Size
- 228 KB
- Record
- 2010/2.43
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2010-sl-2.43/2010_2.43.jpg
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"Ball Figures I; Jonathan Lasker." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2010-sl-2.43/2010_2.43.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.
