Print

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Print

Entry/Object ID

2019.29

Description

Light yellow background with two large shapes in the center that look like the number 3. Triangular shapes on each side of the 3's that look like alligators.

Artwork Details

Medium

screenprint

Context

Throughout Bass's work, recognizable forms appear and yet turn abstract, becoming shapes rather than signifiers, like shadows manipulated by the sun. Repetition is used as a tool to foreground these forms as part of a visual lexicon. Forms and symbols exist in a multitude of perspectives and (re)interpretation, suggesting the possibility of mutable meaning. Although graphic in the flatness of the forms, there is a crispness and lightness to Bass’s geometric abstraction—thin layers of opaque paint are delicately applied to raw canvas. Bass explores breaking down the common boundaries found within the medium(s) and modes of presentation in order to actively engage the viewer in both surreal and everyday ways

Acquisition

Accession

2019.26-64, 72-78

Source or Donor

Browne Goodwin

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Browne and Diane Goodwin

Made/Created

Artist

Bass, Math

Date made

2015

Ethnography

Notes

American

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Screen

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Print

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

Abstract (modern European style), European

Hierarchy Name

Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)

Facet

Styles and Periods Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Screen prints, Abstract prints

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

(framed) 15.31 in. x 14.43 in. x 1 in.

Dimension Notes

38.89 cm. x 36.67 cm. x 2.54 cm.