The Origin of Finger Painting

Print

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Front of print: A print with a black background with detail and contour being subtracted out in white. It shows a complex industrial cityscape through which robots are moving about, with disembodied human fingers clutched in their pincers. There are many fingers placed around the scene, being held or fixed on a painted wall and so on.
Front of print

A print with a black background with detail and contour being subtracted out in white. It shows a complex industrial cityscape through which robots are moving about, with disembodied human fingers clutched in their pincers. There are many fingers placed around the scene, being held or fixed on a painted wall and so on.

Name/Title

The Origin of Finger Painting

Entry/Object ID

2019.P-G.185

Description

A small-medium sized print with a black background with detail and contour being subtracted out in white. It shows a complex industrial cityscape through which robots are moving about, with disembodied human fingers clutched in their pincers. There are many fingers placed around the scene, being held or fixed on a painted wall and so on.

Context

Robots travel through a cityscape, wielding disembodied human fingers to paint with.

Collection

Palmeri-Goodstein Research Print Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Feldman

Role

Artist

Date made

2004

Time Period

21st Century

Lexicon

Search Terms

Robot, finger, finger paint, painting, cityscape, industrial, factory, art, public art, machines

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Print

Dimensions

Height

11-1/2 in

Width

14-1/2 in

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Artist Nancy Palmeri, MFA

Acquisition Method

Gift

Acquisition Date

Aug 2019