Artwork Details
- Title
- Red and Blue
- Artist
- Date
- 1969
- Location
- Dimensions
- 57 × 35 7⁄8 × 1 in. (144.8 × 91.1 × 2.5 cm)
- Copyright
- ©, Helga Sinaiko
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helga Regensteiner Sinaiko
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- wool and other fibers
- Classifications
- Object Number
- 2006.29.2
Artwork Description
Perfect form, perfect proportion, perfect rhythm, perfect color surrounds us, if we will only pay attention.
--Else Regensteiner
Red and Blue emphasizes the texture of fiber in sections of plain weaves (interlacing weft threads and vertical warp threads), exposed warps, and tufts of fringe. A closer look reveals how the artist used burgundy, ruby red, magenta, sapphire blue, and light blue threads to create squares of "red" and "blue."
Else Regensteiner is a star among the constellation of modern textile designers. In 1940 she began an unpaid apprenticeship at the Institute of Design, a Chicago-based school known for its progressive workshops that centered on the German Bauhaus idea of combining design with art. By 1945, Regensteiner was teaching her own courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Like many Bauhaus-influenced women, Regensteiner became a weaver, and she went on to become an inventive artist, a commercially successful designer, and a compelling educator.
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