No Title (Large Red Brick Drawing); No Title (Large Red Brick Drawing)
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No Title (Large Red Brick Drawing); No Title (Large Red Brick Drawing) 2003
  • Artist Rooms
This work comprises a fragment of found paper, printed to look like a wall of red bricks. The strategy of creating a drawing from found material suggests the influence of both Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque?s cubist still life collages in which they used paper printed to replicate wood-grain to represent wooden objects. The paper that Therrien uses is similar to the type found in children?s dollhouses, yet placed within a frame, the paper is transformed into an abstract composition.

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Abstract art

Art in which there is no attempt to represent anything existing in the world, particularly used of the 20th century onwards. `Abstraction? refers to the process of making images that may in part derive from the visible world but which are reduced to basic formal elements.

Cubism

A style of painting originated by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the first two decades of the 20th century. Instead of painting a figure or object from a fixed position they represented it from multiple viewpoints.

Abstract art, Cubism

Details

  • Acc. No. AR00169
  • Medium Paper
  • Size 86.00 x 77.50 cm
  • Credit ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008

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