Man

Print

Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Man

Entry/Object ID

1994.10

Description

This linocut piece has two colors of purple and a yellow-ish color printed. It is a two-color linocut. This linocut is expressive and abstract in its ability to represent man as the title suggests. The face is representative of eyes and wrinkles, but the body is made from these slivers of positive space and arched texture.

Type of Print

Linocut

Artwork Details

Medium

Paper

Acquisition

Accession

1994.10

Source or Donor

Sixty Square Inches Award

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Sixty Square Inches Purchase Award sponsored by Ward and Patricia Snearly

Made/Created

Artist

Rene' Hugo Arceo

Date made

1994

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Linocut

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Relief

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

6 in

Width

8 in

Color

Purple, Yellow

Exhibition

Sixty Square Inches Maximum: 10th Biennial North American Small Print Competition (1996)

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

"Arceo has been active on the Chicago art scene for the past 3 decades. A graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he is co-founder of Chicago's Galeria Ink Works & Mexican Printmaking Workshop, and also worked for the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum. “In most cases my works evolve as a product of a spontaneous act. The act of drawing lines, on a surface, which evolve into shapes and forms defined in the spontaneous process of creating them. That is most often while creating art I do not depart from a specific idea or concept I want to address. Rather, it evolves out of the markings made spontaneously.” – René Hugo Arceo"