Panorama, 11/26/84

Lucas Samaras, Panorama, 11/26/84, 1984, instant color prints, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1986.4
Copied Lucas Samaras, Panorama, 11/26/84, 1984, instant color prints, image: 9 1⁄2 x 35 1⁄8 in. (24.1 x 89.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1986.4

Artwork Details

Title
Panorama, 11/26/84
Artist
Date
1984
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 9 1⁄2 x 35 1⁄8 in. (24.1 x 89.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Mediums Description
instant color prints
Classifications
Keywords
  • Occupation — art — artist
  • Dress — accessory — jewelry
  • Modern art movement — collage
  • Portrait male — Samaras, Lucas — self-portrait
  • Object — furniture — stove
  • Architecture Interior — domestic — kitchen
  • Object — flower — orchid
Object Number
1986.4
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1986.4

Artwork Description

Lucas Samaras, who is also known for sculptures and sewn-fabric paintings, began making Polaroid® photographs in 1969. In the 1980s he began a series he called Panoramas, many of them self-portraits or dramatically lighted interiors of his apartment and studio that are spliced together from strips cut from large-format Polaroid photographs, recombined to create a contiguous but psychologically skewed space.


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