Blanton Museum of Art - Incliné bleu et noir [Tilted Blue and Black]

Incliné bleu et noir [Tilted Blue and Black]

1966
20th century
43 cm x 38 cm x 5.5 cm (16 15/16 in. x 14 15/16 in. x 2 3/16 in.)

Jesús Rafael Soto (Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, 1923 - 2005, Paris) Primary

Object Type: construction

Artist Nationality: Latin America, Venezuelan

Medium and Support: Wood and metal construction on Wood

Credit Line: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Charles and Dorothy Clark, 1976

Accession Number: G1976.11.48

Object Description: A leading figure in the Kinetic and Op art movements, Jesús Rafael Soto investigated ways to dynamically engage the viewer. In this piece, which Soto produced while living in Paris, he suspended a blue and black rod in front of a panel of thinly painted white lines. When the visitors move in front of the work, their changing view of the rod against the striped background generates optical effects along the rod’s tilted edges that ripple with vibrations.

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Now on View - Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art

Venezuelan Art

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Incliné bleu et noir [Tilted Blue and Black]