Tadeusz KANTOR (1915-1990), "Methods of Collage and Cubism" (1967-1968)

Author: Tadeusz KANTOR
Title: Methods of Collage and Cubism (1967-1968)
Technique: marker, tempera, paper
Dimensions: 35 x 64 cm
Dimensions with frame: 75.5 x 102.5 cm
Author's description l.d.: "collage"; p.g.: "Movements inherent in collage : | and resulting from collage: | MOVING MOVEMENTS | planes. | sliding one on top of the other | moving one out of the way of the other; p.d.: "method characteristic of | arrangements of cubist paintings resulted | from the possibilities provided by collage."

Drawing created during the artist's lectures at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1967-1968.

FRAGMENT OF EXPERIENCE:"The work presents both in the drawing and text layers - illustrations to the method of collage and the artistic direction: cubism. The work depicts the mechanism of the interaction of planes in an artwork, which are first stratified (solid objects broken into layers of shapes), and later used to re-construct new solids using layers of deconstructed objects. In this work, the artist describes this mechanism through author's notes, but also illustrates it with four sketches. Three of them are references to the well-known cubist masterpieces of the precursors of Cubism Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso [...]."

Tadeusz Kantor's biography is available on the Krakow Auction House website [SEE].