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        "id": 168514,
        "accession_number": "2010.261",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Blue Bloc, 1967. Edwin Mieczkowski (American, 1929\u20132017). Acrylic on canvas mounted to board; framed: 127 x 127 cm (50 x 50 in.); unframed: 121.9 x 121.9 cm (48 x 48 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, by Exchange, 2010.261. \u00a9 1967, Edwin Mieczkowski, All rights reserved",
        "current_location": "228A Cleveland Artists",
        "title": "Blue Bloc",
        "creation_date": "1967",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1967,
        "creation_date_latest": 1967,
        "artists_tags": [
            "Cleveland School",
            "Cleveland Institute of Art (alumni)",
            "May Show",
            "Cleveland Institute of Art (faculty)",
            "male"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "America, Ohio, Cleveland"
        ],
        "technique": "acrylic on canvas mounted to board",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Painting",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Framed: 127 x 127 cm (50 x 50 in.); Unframed: 121.9 x 121.9 cm (48 x 48 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "framed": {
                "height": 1.27,
                "height_inch": 50,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.0,
                "width": 1.27,
                "width_inch": 50,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.0
            },
            "unframed": {
                "height": 1.219,
                "height_inch": 48,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.0,
                "width": 1.219,
                "width_inch": 48,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.0
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": "\u00a9 1967, Edwin Mieczkowski, All rights reserved",
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "on verso: E. Mieczkowski/ \"Blue Bloc\"/ Spring 1967",
                "inscription_translation": null,
                "inscription_remark": null,
                "sortorder": null
            }
        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "\"Perceptual Inquiry I: Overlap,\" Anonima Gallery, New York, April 3-29, 1967",
                    "opening_date": "1967-04-03T05:00:00Z"
                },
                {
                    "description": "\"Ed Mieczkowski: Visual Paradox: Transforming Perception, Forty Years of Op Art and Geometric Abstraction,\" LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, April 14-May 26, 2006",
                    "opening_date": "2006-04-14T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "\"Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s,\" Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, February 16-June 17, 2007",
                    "opening_date": "2007-02-16T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "\"Op Out of Ohio,\" D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, April 15-July 9, 2010",
                    "opening_date": "2010-04-15T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [],
        "find_spot": null,
        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [],
        "did_you_know": "Op Art is short for optical art, which employs visual illusions.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "Op Art practitioner Mieczkowski created this painting in order to explore some of the perceptual effects of overlapping forms and colors. Featuring 1,316 three-quarter circular shapes in blues, greens, and yellows arrayed against a checkerboard background with gradations of gray, black, and white, Blue Bloc seems to morph in and out of focus across its surface while simultaneously pulsating from within.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60480692"
            ],
            "internet_archive": []
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Johnson, Ken, \"Op Out of Ohio,\" <em>New York Times, </em>June 11, 2010.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced p. C27.",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Walker, Hollis, \"Ed Mieczkowski,\" <em>Artnews</em> 105 (Summer 2006).",
                "page_number": "Mentioned p. 189.",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Mann, C. Griffith. \"Acquisitions 2010.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 51, no. 2 (March/April 2011): 10-27.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 14",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2011-02/page/14/mode/2up"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Cole, Mark. \"Good Vibrations.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 51, no. 2 (March/April 2011): 6-7.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 6",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2011-02/page/n5/mode/2up"
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.261",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Anonymous Gift, by Exchange",
        "image_credit": null,
        "sketchfab_id": null,
        "sketchfab_url": null,
        "gallery_donor_text": "David and Helen Kangesser Gallery",
        "athena_id": 168514,
        "creators": [
            {
                "id": 14740,
                "description": "Edwin Mieczkowski (American, 1929\u20132017)",
                "extent": null,
                "qualifier": null,
                "role": "artist",
                "biography": "Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
                "name_in_original_language": null,
                "birth_year": "1929",
                "death_year": "2017",
                "use_in_caption": true,
                "include_extent": false,
                "weight": 1
            }
        ],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2010-11-29T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1967,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1967",
        "collapse_artists": false,
        "on_loan": false,
        "recently_acquired": false,
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-08-04 11:02:31.950000"
    }
}