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| Accession #: | 4087.1 |
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| Title: | Soundings |
| Object Type: | Painting |
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| Physical Description: | Interior scene painted on Baltic birch; hundreds of small, cut out shapes of paper are pinned to the surface, hovering over a lattice pattern in green a small distance from the surface of the painting. |
| Description: | Michelle Forsyth's painting "Soundings" is from a series of "disaster paintings" that utilized online images of accidents and death. Forsyth chose not to focus on voyeurism or sensationalism, rather her paintings rescue horrific images from their de-personalized context and surround them with beauty. In "Soundings" small colorful scraps of paper hover over the image, covering the disturbing reality of a body, and restoring dignity to the dead. |
| Category: | Art |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Oil (Artwork->Painting); Abstract (Artwork->Subject)
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| Dimensions: |
Object H x W x D 45 1/2 x 45 1/2 x 2 1/4"
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| Materials/Techniques: |
oil paint (paint) (Material)
birch (Material)
paper (fiber product) (Material)
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| Credit Line: | Museum Purchase, 2004 |
| Copyright: |
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