Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Like You
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Like You
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Image View:
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Detail, middle of the work with viewer for scale
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Creator:
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Lari Pittman (American painter, born 1952)
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Location:
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repository: Broad Museum (Los Angeles, California, United States) F-PITT-1P95.26a-e
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Location Note:
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221 S. Grand Avenue
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GPS:
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+34.0544-118.251
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Date:
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1995 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint; enamel paint on five mahogany panels
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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243.84 cm (height) x 812.8 (width) x 4.45 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); typography or calligraphy; symbols; graphics; patterns
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Description:
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This monumentally sized work is comprised of five panels. Lari Pittman has filled up the painting, flattening perspective and making each panel sparkle with activity. By bringing everything to the surface, Pittman creates a device upon which to layer more. Pittman’s work does not easily break down into typical binaries, and here he actively seeks to disrupt them. The imagery is both interior and exterior, decorative and narrative, graphic and painterly. The work depicts an event in full swing; an upheaval of order, perhaps a riot or a parade with androgynous thong-wearing revelers and hands that could be praying or clapping. It presents nuanced complexities and the city portrayed may even be Los Angeles in the aftermath of the 1992 riots. (Source: Broad Museum [website]; https://www.thebroad.org/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-PITMAN-LY-A016
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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