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Seated Group

Seated Group

Richard Artschwager
American, 1923–2013
1962
Seated Group is a large work made with charcoal and synthetic polymer paint on Celotex in which Artschwager flattens a formal meeting into stark silhouettes and an overexposed white table, using industrial materials and blunt reduction to turn a familiar social ritual into an object of attention.
At first glance a dazzling, almost photographic white rectangle (the table) dominates while smudged, faceless figures are rendered as rough black silhouettes against a drippy, fibrous surface that feels simultaneously like painting, print, and a worn snapshot.
Made in 1962, the piece helped bridge Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual art by using inexpensive, industrial materials and severe reduction to question representation, anonymity, and the authority of everyday institutional imagery.
Medium
Charcoal and synthetic polymer paint on Celotex
Dimensions
42 x 60" (106.7 x 152.4 cm)
Classification
Credit
Gift of UBS
Accession
92.2002
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Art Terms
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