Untitled (Music Drawing)
Artist
Stuart Arends
(American, born 1950)
Datecirca 1990
Mediumink on music paper
DimensionsImage: 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (30.2 x 22.5 cm)
Support: 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (30.2 x 22.5 cm)
Frame: 22 1/2 x 19 3/16 x 1 1/8 in. (57.2 x 48.7 x 2.9 cm)
Support: 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (30.2 x 22.5 cm)
Frame: 22 1/2 x 19 3/16 x 1 1/8 in. (57.2 x 48.7 x 2.9 cm)
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineGift of Lisa Neall Forman and Gabrielle Forman in memory of their parents, Irving and Natalie Forman, 2013
Object number2013.45.1
DescriptionMusical composition paper with broad wash of ink across the centereMuseum Notes
Stuart Arends ink-on-music-paper work expands the notion of what constitutes a drawing---and what constitutes a painting—by bridging the two. The piece is done in a reductive style with areas of ink covering the musical staffs of music paper. He moves the ink across the surface of the paper as a painter would paint on a canvas. Yet in working with ink on paper he is employing materials more conventionally associated with a drawing. At the same time, this work also complicates the visual with the suggestion of erased sound.
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