Untitled
Artist name
Artist year born
1920
Artist year deceased
2001
Artwork make date
1967
Artwork material
lithograph
paper
paper
Artwork dimensions
height: 52cm
width: 78cm
width: 78cm
Artwork type (categories)
Print
Accession method
On loan from Ruby Reid Thompson
Accession number
36-2002
Label text
This untitled lithograph from 1967 is typical of the free and gestural abstraction that developed in parallel to the more formal geometric approach of the Neoconcrete artists in Brazil during the 1950s. Ostrower was one of the first Brazilian printmakers to take up abstraction, although her first exhibition of abstract prints at Rio’s Ministry of Education building in 1954 was strongly criticised at the time by many leading printmakers, including Oswaldo Goeldi, who did not accept the possibility of an abstract print. Like Edith Behring, Ostrower learnt printing under Carlos Oswald and Axl Leskoschek at the Fundação Getulio Vargas.
(Display caption from the exhibition <i>Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile</i>, firstsite, 2011-2012)
Ian Dudley
(Display caption from the exhibition <i>Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile</i>, firstsite, 2011-2012)
Ian Dudley
Last updated date
2011