Ynez Johnston

American
(1920–2019)

Parade
1953

Casein on rice paper
14.125 x 27.125 x 0.875 in.
Museum Purchase with the Charter Member Endowment Fund
1998.64

Johnston’s body of work connects the influence of European modernists with the ancient artwork she viewed during her trips to Italy, Mexico, India, and Nepal. She often combined the motifs she found in these ancient artworks with the contemporary styles she practiced during her education at Berkeley. In her work, Johnston likes to experiment with texture and create composite forms of architecture, animals, plants, and human bodies.

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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)."
• figure
• geometric figures - Definite geometric forms or shapes.
• purple
• triangles

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction , 8/25/2020 - 7/9/2022
• SC Fall 22 - Collage , 1/19/2022 - 7/12/2023

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