Artwork Details
- Title
- Breeze
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1958
- Location
- Dimensions
- 53 1⁄2 x 48 3⁄8 in. (135.9 x 122.9 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Solveig Cox and Rosamond Berg Bassett in memory of their mother, Mariska Karasz
- Mediums Description
- embroidered linen, plastic and mixed fibers
- Classifications
- Object Number
- 1991.132.1
Artwork Description
Embroidery is to sewing what poetry is to prose; the stitches can be made to sing out as words in a poem.
--Mariska Karasz
Mariska Karasz was deeply inspired by the colors, textures, and lines of the natural landscape. Her process began by selecting thread from her extensive collection, and she often incorporated unusual materials like cello strings, hair, plastic, and clothesline in her work.
Karasz began her career as a clothing designer. She achieved great success for using traditional Hungarian embroidery and appliqué in modern looks. Following a tumultuous period in the early 1940s during which she divorced her husband and suffered a studio fire, Karasz shifted her focus toward other forms of art. Her early embroideries were densely stitched works that reflected her family and home environment, but she soon experimented with abstraction. No longer planning her designs in advance, she created works that spontaneously evolved with each suture.
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