About this artwork
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.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Robert Therrien (1947 - 2019) American
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title:No Title (Large Red Brick Drawing)
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date created:2003
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materials:Print on paper
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measurements:60.60 x 70.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Art Fund, 2008
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accession number:AR00169
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Robert Therrien
Robert Therrien
The American artist Therrien is renowned for his large-scale sculpture installations of common objects that subvert the viewers’ notion of the familiar, and encourage them to reconsider their perception of space. His early works were based on instantly identifiable motifs, which were simplified and...