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Temptation of St. Antony XXXVI - The Sun

Temptation of St. Antony XXXVI - The Sun

Tim Rollins
American, 1955–2017
1990
A haunting print that pairs a collaged page of German text with a scorched, translucent wash and a blood‑red circular mark made through spit‑bite aquatint, etching, xerography, and stains of animal blood and alcohol on chine collé to suggest decay and ritual.
A small, browned page seems to float in a vast white field, its vertical, flame‑like stains and a deep red, sunlike ring pressing like a wound across the printed words.
By mixing traditional intaglio with xerography and literal bodily materials, the work stretches the boundaries of printmaking and stages a visceral dialogue between language, image, and the body that influenced later transgressive, mixed‑media prints.
Medium
Spit bite aquatint, etching and xerograph with animal blood and alcohol on chine collé
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artists
Accession
60.1996
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