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Part of: Environ244 Art in Nature: Micro to Macro (18 resources )
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Drawing: VIS

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Created by
Catherine Barry
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 12:28 p.m.

27 Items in this Learning Collection
Umgeben

Collection Object
Construction (Konstruktion)
Two tall, rectangular intersecting planes, one black and one white, create the appearance of a tall, minimal structure. Vertical lines of black and white add to the structure, which at its base projects slightly into a rough square shape that seems to delineate a kind of ground or base. The space around the structure is ochre.
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Untitled (Structural Constellation drawing)
pen and ink drawing on half inch grid graph paper ruled in blue
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Konstruktionen (6)

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Konstruktionen (6)

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Konstruktionen (6)

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Arsonist Marionette

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Untitled (Sarajevo Olympics)

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Stars

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Stars

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Stars

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Untitled
This is a red line drawing on cream colored paper. There are curvilinear lines of various lengths and widths with an artist's signature in the lower right corner- "Robert Schwitters, 3.8.1926."
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Untitled
A collage composed of different colored pieces of sandpaper of different grades or textures, construction paper, printed papers, and a piece of embossed leather. Most of the sandpaper pieces are in an overlapping group in the center of the piece. In the viewer's upper right there is a purple piece of paper printed with a throng of human figures.
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Grotte 194
Black and white close-up image of torn and crumpled multi-textural paper.
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Melon
Black and white photograph of a sphere with a textured surface casting a shadow toward the viewer's left.
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Blockhouse, Ios, Greece
Photograph of a section of a square-shaped building.
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Glen Canyon Wall
A rock wall showing varying textures and age.
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Sediment
This black and white print depicts geometric forms arranged to suggest some kind of mechanical contraption. Two larger circular forms are arranged side-by-side in the center of the composition. A line rest diagonally atop these forms and above the line an assortment of circular and less definite shapes and textures (depicted with cross-hatching and other techniques) are described. The print is imbued with a smoke-like atmosphere as a result of the spitbite and aquatint.<br />
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Iceberg #10, Disko Bay, Greenland
This photograph depicts an iceberg in a bay. The iceberg fills most of the frame and subtely emerges from the background.
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Untitled (Aerial View of Beach)
An aerial view of where water meets land. The image is full of texture representing the different landforms. The water creates a "C" curve on the right hand side of the image, while the sand creates a reverse "C" curve on the left side.
Collection Object
Still Life with Musical Instruments (Study for a Bas-Relief)
This drawing shows a few musical instruments abstracted in a cubist way. The largest and central instrument seems to be a guitar while below and to the left, behind the guitar, there seems to be a flute-like piece.
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Composition

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Articulation: Formulation
On a long white horizontal piece of paper are two squares, on the left blue and on the right gold, each with squares nested in them. 
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Articulation: Formulation
Two yellowish squares on a long horizontal piece of white paper with other squares nested in them, in shades of yellow and grey. 
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Articulation: Formulation
In this print there are two vertical rectangles on a long horizontal white piece of paper, each with rectangles embedded in them. In the center of each is a square that seems to open out like a door.
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Articulation: Formulation
On a long white horizontal piece of paper are two rectangles. On the left the rectangle is in shades of grey and on the right, in shades of blue and grey. Within each are geometric shapes in white that look like vertical boxes. 
Collection Object
Articulation: Formulation
On a long horizontal white piece of paper are two rectangles, grey on the left and black on the right. In each shape are outlines of geometric shapes and planes of grey crisscrossing them. 
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Environ244 Art in Nature: Micro to Macro

Copyright
All Rights Reserved
Created by
Catherine Barry
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 12:28 p.m.

18 Items in this Learning Collection
Moths and Insect Motifs

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Raffia Textile Panel
Rectangular panel with hemmed edges. There are two rows of patterns running down the panel consisting of multiple interlocking lines.
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Articulation: Formulation
On a long white horizontal piece of white paper we see four vertical rectangles with treble clef shapes in them in shades of black, white and grey.
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Element from a mosaic frieze, entrance hall of the H.O. Havemeyer House, New York (one of 10 elements)
This mosaic panel depicts flowers and tendrils against a background with both a chevron pattern and a round flower-like patten. Along either side is a tapering beige element that is half of a blade of a plant; when joined with another panel, they create a full plant blade.
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Furrows, Plate V of a suite of five

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The Student (L'Etudiante)
On a narrow, vertically oriented canvas, white surreal biomorphic forms float over a background of larger biomorphic forms in dark blues and black with some red splashes. 
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Untitled

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Spawning
This print has a brown area on the top and green on the bottom with a white section running between them as a river runs between land. The white section has thin black lines outlining the shape of fish and creating texture. Black vertical lines run top to bottom over all sections. 
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The Earth

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Letters to Earth

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Vibrations, from "Earth Projects, A Suite of 10 Prints"
This lithograph on white wove paper is horizontally oriented with a grid of light gray lines on a white background. On the left side is a contour map with green areas and blue lines. There are five small squares in a diagonal row in the center portion of the map. On the right side there are two plans. The one on the bottom is a cross section diagram of a platform (??) under ground. The one above shows a yellow rectangle with a smaller rectangle formed by dotted lines within it. There are word labels throughout this work. <br />
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Symbol of Earth (Ts'ung)

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Killer Whale and Ray Center, Nazca
This photograph depicts an aerial view of a desert with lines etched into the earth, which form geoglyhps in the shape of a killer whale and lines emanating from a center.
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Corner Decoration of a Painted Ceiling
Seen from below, the drawing shows an illusionistic painted corner of a ceiling. A balustrade below which are architectural details including putti, swags, and acanthus leaves.
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Corner Decoration of a Painted Ceiling
The viewer is presented with an illusionistic rendering of a corner an ornate celiing. Architectural moldings, windows, and a still life in the corner with a globe and measuring instruments suggest that this might have been intended for a library
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Callistemma brachiatum
A black and white photograph of a bell-shaped, textured structure with oval holes encircling its middle. It sits on the ground by itself.
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Untitled (Aerial View of Beach)
An aerial view of where water meets land. The image is full of texture representing the different landforms. The water creates a "C" curve on the right hand side of the image, while the sand creates a reverse "C" curve on the left side.
Collection Object
Melon
Black and white photograph of a sphere with a textured surface casting a shadow toward the viewer&#39;s left.
Collection Object
18 Items in this Learning Collection
Moths and Insect Motifs

Collection Object
Raffia Textile Panel
Rectangular panel with hemmed edges. There are two rows of patterns running down the panel consisting of multiple interlocking lines.
Collection Object
Articulation: Formulation
On a long white horizontal piece of white paper we see four vertical rectangles with treble clef shapes in them in shades of black, white and grey.
Collection Object
Element from a mosaic frieze, entrance hall of the H.O. Havemeyer House, New York (one of 10 elements)
This mosaic panel depicts flowers and tendrils against a background with both a chevron pattern and a round flower-like patten. Along either side is a tapering beige element that is half of a blade of a plant; when joined with another panel, they create a full plant blade.
Collection Object
Furrows, Plate V of a suite of five

Collection Object
The Student (L'Etudiante)
On a narrow, vertically oriented canvas, white surreal biomorphic forms float over a background of larger biomorphic forms in dark blues and black with some red splashes. 
Collection Object
Untitled

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Spawning
This print has a brown area on the top and green on the bottom with a white section running between them as a river runs between land. The white section has thin black lines outlining the shape of fish and creating texture. Black vertical lines run top to bottom over all sections. 
Collection Object
The Earth

Collection Object
Letters to Earth

Collection Object
Vibrations, from "Earth Projects, A Suite of 10 Prints"
This lithograph on white wove paper is horizontally oriented with a grid of light gray lines on a white background. On the left side is a contour map with green areas and blue lines. There are five small squares in a diagonal row in the center portion of the map. On the right side there are two plans. The one on the bottom is a cross section diagram of a platform (??) under ground. The one above shows a yellow rectangle with a smaller rectangle formed by dotted lines within it. There are word labels throughout this work. <br />
Collection Object
Symbol of Earth (Ts'ung)

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Killer Whale and Ray Center, Nazca
This photograph depicts an aerial view of a desert with lines etched into the earth, which form geoglyhps in the shape of a killer whale and lines emanating from a center.
Collection Object
Corner Decoration of a Painted Ceiling
Seen from below, the drawing shows an illusionistic painted corner of a ceiling. A balustrade below which are architectural details including putti, swags, and acanthus leaves.
Collection Object
Corner Decoration of a Painted Ceiling
The viewer is presented with an illusionistic rendering of a corner an ornate celiing. Architectural moldings, windows, and a still life in the corner with a globe and measuring instruments suggest that this might have been intended for a library
Collection Object
Callistemma brachiatum
A black and white photograph of a bell-shaped, textured structure with oval holes encircling its middle. It sits on the ground by itself.
Collection Object
Untitled (Aerial View of Beach)
An aerial view of where water meets land. The image is full of texture representing the different landforms. The water creates a "C" curve on the right hand side of the image, while the sand creates a reverse "C" curve on the left side.
Collection Object
Melon
Black and white photograph of a sphere with a textured surface casting a shadow toward the viewer&#39;s left.
Collection Object

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Untitled (Aerial View of Beach)

Accession Number
2012/1.237

Title
Untitled (Aerial View of Beach)

Artist(s)
Steve Crouch

Medium & Support
gelatin silver print on paper

Dimensions
5 1/4 in x 4 in (13.34 cm x 10.16 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Margaret and Howard Bond

Physical Description
An aerial view of where water meets land. The image is full of texture representing the different landforms. The water creates a "C" curve on the right hand side of the image, while the sand creates a reverse "C" curve on the left side.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Primary Object Type
black and white print

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
aerial views
landforms (terrestrial)
water (inorganic material)

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Nature in Photography
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