"Aleching"
Pierre Alechinsky
Belgian, born 1927
Walasse Ting
American, 1929–2010
1963
A lithograph in which Pierre Alechinsky translates impulsive, calligraphic drawing into a layered, painterly print to evoke improvisation and bodily movement.
At first glance the sheet bursts with energetic marks: a crimson splash and scattered droplets on the left contrast with dense, looping green masses and frantic black scribbles on the right, producing a sense of collision, depth, and rhythmic motion.
Made after his involvement with the CoBrA circle, the print helped blur boundaries between drawing, painting, and printmaking by showing that lithography could capture the immediacy of automatic, hand-drawn gesture.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
irreg. composition 14 9/16 x 21 7/16" (37 x 54.5 cm)
sheet 15 1/16 x 22 7/16" (38 x 57 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
539.1978
Palette
Exhibitions
