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Details
- Date
- 1968
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour screenprint on cartridge paper
- Edition
- unnumbered from edition of 10
- Dimensions
- 74.0 x 61.0 cm image; 88.0 x 70.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "J. Se(illeg.) [signature] ....'68".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 287.2008
- Copyright
- © Jan Senbergs/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Jan Senbergs
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About
"In this particular print I tried to use a figure, nobody in particular, just some head I picked up from some magazine, just a head from a crowd scene. But I soon dismissed that because it was too specific.
I only did it once. In the sixties screenprinting was really big
in London, with Hockney, Boshier, Hamilton and Paolozzi. They were Pop orientated, figurative and quite clear cut. I didn't want that. I was going in a different direction. I wanted ambiguity, to create my own kind of imagery, without the human form. I felt that if you put a human figure in, then straightaway you gave an indication of the scale around them. I didn't want that. I wanted to leave it ambiguous."Jan Senbergs
[Hendrik Kolenberg, Jan Senbergs complete screenprints 1960-88, pg 40] -
Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Jan Senbergs: from screenprints to painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Apr 2008–25 May 2008
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Jan Senbergs: Complete screenprints 1960-88, Sydney, 2008, 40 (colour illus.). cat.no. 26
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Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Jan Senbergs: Paintings and prints (1969), Sydney, 1969. cat.no. 19; NOTE: Impression unknown.
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