The Getaway
1977
lithograph
sheet: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
Margo Humphrey
(Oakland, CA, USA, 1942 - )
CULTURE OR GROUP:
American
OBJECT TYPE:
lithographs
IMAGE USE:
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NOT CURRENTLY ON VIEW
CREDIT LINE:
Gift of Lloyd E. Rigler
OBJECT NUMBER:
1982-21-111
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Project or Exhibition: Visual Description Project
This artwork is a colorful lithograph, which is a type of print on paper. There is a warm colored border around the entire image - on the left side it is orange, in the middle the color smoothly transitions into red and then magenta on the right side. Many smaller shapes break up the border and create a "messy" feeling of movement. The small shapes that break up the border remind me of fingernails with long pointy nails. Inside the border, stretching across the horizon of the painting is a large tiger. It is yellow with thin, sparse stripes. Its mouth is open and a red tongue sticks out between its sharp teeth. It is not a realistic rendering of a tiger, but more of an illustration - it appears both powerful and playful. Above the tiger, floating in the air, are two figures. They face each other and appear to be dancing or floating in relation to each other. The figure on the right has arms stretched behind her and long hair. The figure on the left seems to have their legs folded up in a sort of fetal position, and they are grasping the other figure at the chest. Similar to the tiger below them, they are not realistically rendered but illustrated in such a way that implies movement and body positions without fully rendering them. Their clothing matches, they each seem to have a dress on that is yellow, dark blue and red. The colors fill up the garments with scratchy movements. Falling from the sky, surrounding the floating couple and falling on the tiger, are red chili peppers, stars, and small crescent moons. All of these components, taken in at once, give a sense of overlapping movements, almost like music. Different rhythms and tones - some steady and regular and others more sparse, and shimmers of color form this surreal dreamscape.
Written by: L. Sylvestre, 2020
DIMENSIONS
- sheet, sheet: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)