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Abstract photography

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Isaac Christian Wingfield
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 4:17 p.m.

16 Items in this Learning Collection
Terrors and Pleasures of Levitation, No. 99
A photograph of a leaping man in mid-air with arms outstretched and legs tucked backward viewed from below.
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Valerie Bettis

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Chicago

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Backyard

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TV Aerial and Agave

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Figure and Squares, Toronto, Canada, from "Society's Man"

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Untitled

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Untitled

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Arm, Umbrella, Sea, from "Déja Vu"

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North Carolina 9
A partially-blocked view of a landscape viewed through a window pane.
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The Saga of J. Blue: Chapter 5, from "Detroit Focus 2000"

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Carnival
This image is one of twelve photographs from Brassaï's <em>Transmutations</em> portfolio. In this photograph, Brassaï has drawn on a negative of a female figure using the cliché-verre process. The resulting image portrays a female nude partially abstracted into geometric shapes.
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Light Dance No. 2, from "Portfolio 2"

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An Affair of the Heart (one half of a diptych), from "Portfolio 2"

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The Rouge Study #9, Dearborn, MI

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The Rouge Study #22, Dearborn, MI

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English 125-062

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Created by
Klara Loc-Ling Boger
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 4:17 p.m.

15 Items in this Learning Collection
A Lie
This is a line drawing done in colors of red, orange, blue, yellow, brown and green, on white paper. In the top center portion of the sheet are the words, "A LIE". Below this are forms that resemble an egg, a slice of bacon, a piece of bread with a pat of yellow butter. Below these forms are some round shapes, labeled "flakes", a bowl and a carton of milk, labeled "milk".
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Line A-C
This mixed media collage consists of a long skein of yarn of varying colors attached at point A at the top of the print, creating a jumbled mass of yarn below and exiting at point C, also at the top of the canvas.
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Hiroshima Series

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Urban Daydream II
This print is a colorful image of a sink filled with green water. At the center, there is a miniature boat that floats in the water. On the counter-space of the sink at the back, there sits various toiletries such as mouthwash, perfume, toothbrushes, and a razor. Almost out of the frame, a red washcloth hangs off the left edge of the sink. The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "AP 24/75" in pencil.
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Marilyn Monroe
Bust-length portrait of Marilyn Monroe positioned in front of a red background; Haring used a poster of the actress onto which he applied sumi ink in a series of outlines, marks and drips over the face, neck, chest and shoulders.
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Before the Mirror

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Felix, Gladys and Rover, New York City, from "Master Prints Volume I"

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Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
This print shows a landscape with a mountain rising in the middle of the background. There are trees and grass in front, and a body of water in the foreground. At the center, on the edge of the water, sits a faucet, a razor, and a toothbrush in a clear glass as if the body of water is a sink.<br /> The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "197/275" in pencil.
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Figure and Squares, Toronto, Canada, from "Society's Man"

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Jessica, 13, orders a nonalcoholic drink at a party, Beverly Hills
A photograph of a young girl ordering a drink at a bar. She holds her arm up, revealing a watch, and wears sunglasses on her head. A large red drink sits in the foreground on the bar and a neon sign hangs in the background.
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After Manet
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
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Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?
This multi-colored photolithograph has an image of Minnie Mouse at the left center surrounded by a variety of geometric shapes and lines. Minnie Mouse's body is made up of dots. Below the figure, there is small, blurry text that reads "April 12, 1945." 
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Stravinsky
A series of ink dots, placed over six staffs of music notation, form a pair of spectacles, an eye, a nose, and lips.
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Untitled
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.
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16 Items in this Learning Collection
Terrors and Pleasures of Levitation, No. 99
A photograph of a leaping man in mid-air with arms outstretched and legs tucked backward viewed from below.
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Valerie Bettis

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Chicago

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Backyard

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TV Aerial and Agave

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Figure and Squares, Toronto, Canada, from "Society's Man"

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Untitled

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Untitled

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Arm, Umbrella, Sea, from "Déja Vu"

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North Carolina 9
A partially-blocked view of a landscape viewed through a window pane.
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The Saga of J. Blue: Chapter 5, from "Detroit Focus 2000"

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Carnival
This image is one of twelve photographs from Brassaï's <em>Transmutations</em> portfolio. In this photograph, Brassaï has drawn on a negative of a female figure using the cliché-verre process. The resulting image portrays a female nude partially abstracted into geometric shapes.
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Light Dance No. 2, from "Portfolio 2"

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An Affair of the Heart (one half of a diptych), from "Portfolio 2"

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The Rouge Study #9, Dearborn, MI

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The Rouge Study #22, Dearborn, MI

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Figure and Squares, Toronto, Canada, from "Society's Man"

Accession Number
1985/2.63.5

Title
Figure and Squares, Toronto, Canada, from "Society's Man"

Artist(s)
Algimantas Kezys

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1969; printed 1984

Medium & Support
gelatin silver print on paper

Dimensions
23 7/8 in. x 20 5/16 in. ( 60.6 cm x 51.6 cm )

Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Milda Budrys

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
Figures
modern and contemporary art
squares
walking

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