Profils Horizonteaux
Artist
Maurice Pasternak (Belgian, b. 1946)
Date
1985Medium
Mezzotint on Hahn Mühle PaperDimensions
Image : 21 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (54.61 x 77.47 cm)
Sheet : 31 x 42 in. (78.74 cm x 1.1 m)
Mat : 40 x 50 in. (1 x 1.3 m)Credit Line
Gift of Arthur and Kristine RossofObject Number
2019.90.66
Label
Four rows of people sit side by side on chairs, all of them looking at and interacting with other people or things outside the frame of the picture. Some story or event is implied, but the nature of that story or event is intentionally left unclear. Although the title suggests that the figures are sitting in horizontal rows, the composition makes it appear as if the figures are stacked vertically on top of one another, thus creating a surreal disconnect between what we read in the title and what we see in the image.
