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Horizon of Expectations

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi ; Kelpra Studio Ltd, London

Artwork Details

Horizon of Expectations
1967
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi ; Kelpra Studio Ltd, London
screenprint on paper
40 3/16 in x 26 9/16 in (102.08 cm x 67.47 cm)
Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick
2000/2.11.3

Description

Subject Matter:

As one of the founders of the Independent Group, Paolozzi was an early British Pop artist. This series of ten prints came after his travels in California, where he visited tourist sites like Disneyland, Frederick's of Hollywood, and Paramount Studios, as well as centers of technology: UC Computer Center, Standord's Linear Accelerator center, Douglas Aircraft Company and the GM Assembly Plant in Hayward. The combination of imagery from popular culture, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and the technological imagery of dot matrixes and circuit boards creates a stage in which art and science can be in dialogue. Even the text at the base of the print combines aesthetic language with math-like equations. 

Physical Description:

This screenprint has a series of horizontal lines in pink, orange, green, grey, tan, black, and blue. At the top, there is a grid design in black, tan and white. There is a band of figures at the bottom with images of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Below, there is a band of colored hexigons and a band of dark pink with white text, which reads: "horizon of expectation". The problem 'Which comes first, the solid. The fashioning power, that has not contained in R*. In the first case we choose Z for A and thus get R* = B. In the second case we may also write the second line in the form (2ˆ1) Z T1, ..., from the dialectical usage. / almost an example of painted philosophy. Thus, the result of these pictures we can carry on a dialogue. fore T = ASi. Consequently the order of B is Zb, half of its operations are proper forming the group T the other half are improper, the coloring serves the visualization of form. The / colored border unconscious expectations, these CtT(a) + CtF(a) = Ct(a) no ve ní, vune ne vea ní. (38) miti-bolomas wo, miti-bikinatsai. -- APRIL 1967".

The print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Eduardo Paolozzi A/P 1967". 

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