Edda Renouf

Mexican/American, b. 1943

Running Sounds
1978

Graphite, pastel, and incisid lines on paper
24.875 x 22.375 x 1.5 in.
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowments for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services
2009.69

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This object has the following keywords:

• abstract - Genre of visual arts in which figurative subjects or other forms are simplified or changed in their representation so that they do not portray a recognizable person, object, thing, etc.; may reference an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, prefer "abstraction." For 20th-century art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature, use "Abstract (fine arts style)."
• curvy
• diagonal - Inclined obliquely from a reference line, like a straight line joining the two opposite corners of a rectangle.
• grey
• lines
• minimalism
• rhombuses - Geometric figures having four equal sides and equal opposite angles, particularly where there are no right angles, as contrasted with a square; an oblique equilateral parallelogram.

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Vogel Collection , 8/1/2009 - 10/22/2014
• ARTH 6900/4800 - Modern & Postmodern Art of Mexico , 1/14/2019 - 5/10/2019
• Fall 20 - Vogel Women , 9/22/2020 - 12/18/2021

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