Thursday, December 20, 2012

Eduardo Paolozzi

 "Insects' Wings," 1951

 "Will the Future Rulers of the Earth Come from the Ranks of Insects?" from Z.E.E.P. (Zero Energy Experimental Pile), 1969-70

 "Bash," 1971

 untitled, 1973

"Maahantai," 1975

"Appel-Calder," 1975

"Study for Turing 3," 2000

"Turing 6," 2000

"Turing 8," 2000

5 comments:

  1. "Insects Wings" was made as a textile design for Horrockses Fashion, and is one of my favourite Paolozzi.
    A link to an image of the dress:

    http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk290/123catwalk/horr4.jpg

    More AC predecessors,
    Some David Wojnarowicz's works can be read as non narrative comics.

    http://storage.canalblog.com/56/82/326328/28942750.jpg

    The works of Adolph Gottlieb are abstract sequential art (though referring writing more then comics)

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  2. Thanks for the information on "Insect Wings"! I must admit, I like it better as a stand-alone piece, though... When used as a textile design, the overall composition is lost.

    I guess you're right about Gottlieb. I mean, usually what comes to mind, to me at least, are the paintings with the floaty colored discs, but some of the earlier pieces do have kind of a breakdown into panels. Is that what you're referring to? I'll have to do a post of some of those some time.

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  3. Works like

    http://images.cdn.fotopedia.com/flickr-2524757842-hd.jpg

    http://brwnpaperbag.com/images/jun10/jun8/agottlieb2.jpg

    http://www.lamaisonlion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/modern-art.jpg

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  4. Michael--sorry I missed your comment the first time around, it got sent to my spam folder. Please do. Hopefully you'll be able to find a bigger pic of it than I was able to.

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