Reflections on Movement
Drawing
1989-1990 (made)
1989-1990 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Barry Martin (born 1943) is a graduate of Goldsmith's College and of St Martin's School of Art, both especially influential in the 1960s when he was studying there. He has worked in various media - including kinetic sculpture, film, performance, and the making of environments - but the constant in his work has been drawing, either as a working tool, as a means of recording and observing, or as an end in itself. For Martin, drawing is a system of signs analogous to those of language, and also an intellectual process of enquiry, analysis and proposition.
His gift of drawings spans his career from the time he was a student in the 1960s, until the 1990s. This drawing, ‘Reflections on Movement, 1989-90, ostensibly an abstract piece, continues his ongoing concerns with expressing – indeed embodying - action, energy and movement through the medium of drawing. For other drawings by Martin in the V&A collection see E.315-321-2006
His gift of drawings spans his career from the time he was a student in the 1960s, until the 1990s. This drawing, ‘Reflections on Movement, 1989-90, ostensibly an abstract piece, continues his ongoing concerns with expressing – indeed embodying - action, energy and movement through the medium of drawing. For other drawings by Martin in the V&A collection see E.315-321-2006
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Reflections on Movement (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, crayon, ink, wash, chalk and acrylic on paper |
| Brief description | 'Reflections on Movement', abstract drawing by Barry Martin, London, 1989-1990 |
| Physical description | Abstract drawing |
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| Credit line | Given by the artist |
| Summary | Barry Martin (born 1943) is a graduate of Goldsmith's College and of St Martin's School of Art, both especially influential in the 1960s when he was studying there. He has worked in various media - including kinetic sculpture, film, performance, and the making of environments - but the constant in his work has been drawing, either as a working tool, as a means of recording and observing, or as an end in itself. For Martin, drawing is a system of signs analogous to those of language, and also an intellectual process of enquiry, analysis and proposition. His gift of drawings spans his career from the time he was a student in the 1960s, until the 1990s. This drawing, ‘Reflections on Movement, 1989-90, ostensibly an abstract piece, continues his ongoing concerns with expressing – indeed embodying - action, energy and movement through the medium of drawing. For other drawings by Martin in the V&A collection see E.315-321-2006 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.319-2006 |
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| Record created | October 25, 2006 |
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