Figure Sitting
Marion Marche Perkins (1908 – 1961)
Découvrez les sculptures et peintures évocatrices de Marion Marche Perkins, issus de la Renaissance de Chicago. Explorez les thèmes de la communauté et du changement social à travers son style unique.
Musée d'art SCAD (Savannah, États-Unis)
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Marion Perkins was one of Chicago?s foremost Renaissance sculptors and was known for his compact and expressive carved stone heads and figures. Using stone from derelict city buildings, Perkins transformed his rough found materials into realist forms skillfully carved in a manner similar to European modernist sculptors and believed the style befit the African American themes he chose to represent. Figure Sitting, with its evenly polished surface and compressed form, is an early work predating a more mature style the artist developed in the 1940s and 50s. While a juxtaposition of textures is more evident in later works, Figure Sitting is no less emotive with its striking expression and pensive posture.
À propos de cette œuvre
- Titre: Figure Sitting
- Artiste: Marion Marche Perkins
- Année: 1939
- Format: Portrait
- Statut du droit d'auteur: Protégé par le droit d'auteur
- Où le voir: Musée d'art SCAD
- Intensité des couleurs: Monochromatic
- Luminosité perçue: brilliant

