Night
Baizerman, Saul
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Date
2013-01-11Description
Overall view; Located on the second-floor level terrace outside the Museum's South Pavilion. This reclining female figure suggests stillness and movement, fragility and strength. The oversized nude conveys mass and weight, but it is in fact a slender sheet of hammered copper supported by an iron armature. The substantial presence of the form is also undermined by the marked absence of head and neck, arms and feet. Finally, the textured, irregular copper surface, an indelible record of the artist's hammering, also animates the figure's sensual curving form. Source: The Getty [website]; http://www.getty.edu/ (accessed 7/10/2010)
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work)Subject
allegory, human figure, Twentieth century
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