Most Beautiful Appear, from the portfolio The Creation

Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Tim Rollins, Most Beautiful Appear, from the portfolio The Creation, 2004, screenprint with chine collé on paper, 21 ¹⁄₂ x 15 in. (54.6 x 38.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Anne and Ronald Abramson, 2008.37.1.7

Artwork Details

Title: Most Beautiful Appear, from the portfolio The Creation
Artists: Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
Tim Rollins
Printer: Matthew Michel
Publisher: Pyramid Atlantic
Date: 2004
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: 21 ¹⁄₂ x 15 in. (54.6 x 38.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Anne and Ronald Abramson
Mediums Description: screenprint with chine collé on paper
Classifications: Graphic Arts
Print
Subjects: Religion — Old Testament — Creation
Object — written matter — sheet music
Object Number: 2008.37.1.7
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2008.37.1.7

Artwork Description

Tim Rollins founded the artist collective K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) in New York in 1982 with a group of children from his neighborhood in the South Bronx. Working together with a changing group of “underachieving” students, Rollins has directed numerous art projects that foster collective creativity. Working with at-risk area kids participating in the Pyramid Atlantic workshop’s visual literacy program in Silver Spring, Maryland, Rollins chose Franz Josef Haydn’s oratorio, The Creation, to be their source of inspiration. As they listened to the music, the group made drawings and prints and contemplated the beginning of the universe, moving from the void to the primal and momentous appearance of light and the ensuing emergence of heaven, earth, celestial bodies, land, sea, plants, and animals. Each of the prints embodies one of the seven days of creation.

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