Adolph Gottlieb / Pictograph / c. 1944Adolph Gottlieb
Pictograph
c. 1944

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Creator Name: Gottlieb, Adolph
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1903 - 1974
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Adolph Gottlieb
Title: Pictograph
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1939
Creation End Date: 1949
Creation Date: c. 1944
Object Type: Prints
Materials and Techniques: etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 22cm x 26.8cm, Platemark: 20.2cm x 25.1cm
Inscriptions: numbered, titled, and signed in graphite, below image: 8/10 "pictograph" Adolph Gottlieb
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1998.109
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Copyright: Art: © Artist or Artist's Estate/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Rights: www.vaga.org
Context: From 1935 Gottlieb collected African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian sculpture in which he found a spiritual power and vitality lacking in contemporary Western art. By the early 1940s Gottlieb had developed his own pictographs---simple depictions of objects or shapes filling the compartments of a flat grid. Based on a range of sources, including Egyptian hieroglyphs, Native American and African Art, European modernism, and the work of Pablo Picasso, the images purposely have no definitive meanings so that each viewer can interpret them differently.The random juxtaposition of diverse signs reflects Gottlieb's experimentation with two techniques the Surrealists introduced in the late 1930s, automatic drawing and free association. He sought to bypass the depiction of observed reality and to discover deeper layers of experience. Gottlieb wrote: 'I would free associate, putting whatever came to my mind very freely within the different rectangles...There would be very little editing or revision.'
AMICA ID: CMA_.1998.109
AMICA Library Year: 2001
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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