Philanderer
Print
2001 (made)
2001 (made)
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In her recent work Lanzetta challenges the familiar structures and readings of pattern, by a process of fragmenting and distorting which thwarts our expectations of repetition and regularity. Her motifs include plant forms, industrial products, details from architecture and ironwork, and elements of historic Asian textiles, which are photographed, scanned into a computer, and manipulated digitally to achieve the desired scale and relative proportions. They are then transferred to screens with a larger than usual mesh, allowing the artist to print with viscous pigments, in this case oil paint. The result is a richer, more fluid and painterly, surface than one expects of a screenprint. Philanderer applies digital means to traditional ends, and demonstrates the way in which much contemporary art blurs the conventional boundaries between media such as printmaking and painting.
Object details
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Object type | |
Title | Philanderer (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Oil paint, enamel, and screenprint on birch wood panel |
Brief description | Philanderer, 2001, screenprint on wood panel, by Margaret Lanzetta. |
Physical description | Screenprint in oil paint and enamel on a birch wood panel. The pigments are layered and the motifs are fragments of patterns derived from metalwork and Mughal carpets. |
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Credit line | Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund |
Summary | In her recent work Lanzetta challenges the familiar structures and readings of pattern, by a process of fragmenting and distorting which thwarts our expectations of repetition and regularity. Her motifs include plant forms, industrial products, details from architecture and ironwork, and elements of historic Asian textiles, which are photographed, scanned into a computer, and manipulated digitally to achieve the desired scale and relative proportions. They are then transferred to screens with a larger than usual mesh, allowing the artist to print with viscous pigments, in this case oil paint. The result is a richer, more fluid and painterly, surface than one expects of a screenprint. Philanderer applies digital means to traditional ends, and demonstrates the way in which much contemporary art blurs the conventional boundaries between media such as printmaking and painting. |
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Accession number | E.1099-2002 |
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Record created | November 12, 2002 |
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