id:			157295
accession number:	1994.163.1
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.163.1
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:52.715000

21 Etchings and Poems:  Poem, 1960. Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian, 1927-). Etching and aquatint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1994.163.1

title:				21 Etchings and Poems:  Poem
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creation date:			1960
creation date earliest:		1960
creation date latest:		1960
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Belgium, 20th century
technique:	etching and aquatint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian, 1927-)  - artist

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 16 - November 23, 2003.  " Object in Focus:  Karl Appel and the Legacy of COBRA "

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Was it snowing?--- When she gave me this little bit of snow, the sun was hiding so that nothing 
of our meeting should melt, so that the fire between us would light without any help, only through our warmth, for want of our silence, and from elsewhere.

This print was commissioned as part of an artist's book called 21 Etchings and Poems. At the time of its creation, the book was the most significant collaboration between artists and poets in America. Here, Pierre Alechinsky and artist and poet Christian Dotremont demonstrate the collaborative spirit of COBRA. Alechinsky wrote Dotremont's poem in his own handwriting and signed the names of both artists to the plate. Alechinsky's etching, showing a round flea-like animal, is surrounded by an abstract background of flowing lines that seem to anticipate an artistic form later invented by Dotremont: the logogram. Logograms were beautifully calligraphic artworks that abstracted the written word, often to the point of illegibility, in order to challenge the frontier between painting and writing.

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