Untitled
Artist
Paul Sarkisian
(American, 1928 - 2019)
Date1977
Mediumacrylic on linen
DimensionsImage: 77 × 102 in. (195.6 × 259.1 cm)
Frame: 78 3/8 × 103 3/8 × 1 7/8 in. (199.1 × 262.6 × 4.8 cm)
Frame: 78 3/8 × 103 3/8 × 1 7/8 in. (199.1 × 262.6 × 4.8 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Frank Ribelin, 1987
Object number1987.334.1
DescriptionImage of newspaper cutouts in geometric shapes, backpack, newspaperseMuseum Notes
This
mural-scale trompe l’oeil (“trick the eye”)
painting is rendered meticulously; making it hard to believe the artwork was painted
by hand and is not a collage of actual objects. Upon careful inspection, the
impossibility of the individual objects in the composition begins to reveal
itself.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- illusionism
