Homage to Gorbachev

Print

Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Homage to Gorbachev

Entry/Object ID

1994.25.01

Description

This is a woodcut consisting of two figures, a possible eye and a sliver of maroon also in the shape of an eye without the pupil. The background is a pink in with either little pressure or little ink, two figures in a blue, a possible eye in the left corner with a yellow pupil and a maroon shape in the right. This piece's title says it's a homage to Gorbachev which was a leader in Russia. This print seems to have some political motifs to it. It seems as if this is a multicolor block print or reductive print.

Type of Print

Woodcut

Artwork Details

Medium

Paper

Acquisition

Accession

1994.25

Source or Donor

Hermann Sawitzky

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Hermann Sawitzky

Made/Created

Artist

Wolfgang Küppers

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Woodcut

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

Color

Pink, Blue, Purple, Maroon, Yellow, White

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

"Wolfgang Küppers (German, b. 1943) Homage to Gorbachev Woodcut 1994.25.01, Gift of Hermann Sawitzky"