Black Dice is based on a still photograph derived from an English gangster film of that name. The photograph represents a split second from a longer, continuous narrative. The artist divided the image into nine equal sections and developed each as an independent abstract composition in which key elements of the original scene remain identifiable. Baldessari is interested in things exploding and imploding, and being disjunctive. He likes to include the original movie still when the prints are exhibited so that the viewer can better understand the individual parts as well as the whole.
Multiplicity, 2011
Multiplicity, 2011
- Title
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Black Dice
- Artists
- Printer
- Publishers
- Date
- 1982
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 16 1⁄2 x 19 3⁄4 in. (41.9 x 50.2 cm)
- Copyright
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© 1982, Peter Blum Edition and Blumarts, Inc., New York
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase
- Mediums Description
- color aquatint, photo etching, soft ground and lift ground on paper
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Figure male
- State of being – evil – danger
- Object Number
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1993.31.1A-I
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
