print
- Museum number
- 2018,7058.2
- Title
- Object: Untitled (Silence)
- Description
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Abstract image; the top third and a strip down left side of sheet are printed in black, the rest of the image consists of irregular shapes, lines and marks of various kinds. c.1967
Etching, aquatint and collage of pieces of etched paper and black ink overpainting, on cream wove paper
- Production date
- c.1967
- Dimensions
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Height: 374 millimetres (plate)
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Height: 388 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 447 millimetres
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Width: 468 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 'Untitled (Silence)' comes from a group of prints that Rudolf Baranik made in response to the war in Vietnam, which were never editioned. It relates to an etching titled 'White Out', which was published in the portfolio 'Artists and Writers Protest against the War in Vietnam' (1967). The print also relates to a series of 30 anti-war paintings called 'Napalm Elegies' that Baranik produced between 1967 and 1974, which were based on a photograph of the head of a child with a disfigured face caused by napalm.
The abstract shapes in 'Untitled (Silence)' resemble soft and rounded body-like forms that appear entombed under the solid black of the top third of the image.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Acquisition notes
- Provenance: the estate of Rudolf Baranik.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2018,7058.2
