Untitled

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Untitled

Entry/Object ID

2019.32b

Description

(Orange) top register has orange rectangle and two orange triangles. Middle stripe of blue above large rectangle of orange.

Artwork Details

Medium

Acrylic, pastel, Ink on paper

Context

This work is populated by dark black triangles that rest atop pops of bright red, yellow, orange, and what many artists might recognize as “painters tape blue”. These fractured black triangular masses seem as if they are the fragments of a once intact, rectangular whole. Compositionally, Chavira’s work feels balanced, harmonious, not unlike Piet Mondrian, if Mondrian had used diagonals. Both artists favor small square compositions and thin bands of black that stop just short of the edge of the painting. This style marks a departure for Chavira, who has worked primarily in ornate portraiture.

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

Javier Chavira

Date made

2014

Ethnography

Notes

Mexican

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature

Location

verso

Transcription

Javier Chavira

Type

Date

Location

verso

Transcription

2013

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

Abstract (modern European style), European, geometric abstraction, abstraction, forms of expression (artistic concept), artistic concepts

Hierarchy Name

Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)

Facet

Styles and Periods Facet, Associated Concepts Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Abstract paintings, Geometry

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Framed

Height

21-5/8 in

Width

21-5/8 in

Depth

1-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

54.92 cm. x 54.92 cm. x 3.81 cm.

Height

19 in

Width

19 in