Artwork
Cry
Artist
Jesse Amado
(American, born 1951)
DepartmentContemporary Art
Date1994
MediumLatex and glass on board
Dimensions48 x 42 1/4 in. (121.9 x 107.3 cm)
Credit LineSan Antonio Museum of Art, gift of ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art | San Antonio, gift to the Margaret Pace Willson Collection of Contemporary Art
Object number94.56
Copyright© Jesse Amado
Label Text"The formal part of the work is important. So
I do not forget about that, but I also want to
stress the metaphorical aspect of it. I think of
my work in poetic terms. Poetry is very important
to me."
Jesse Amado
In the 1960s and 1970s, monochromatic painting was common among Minimalist artists who reduced their visual vocabularies to a single color in an effort to refer to pure art, that is, to nothing other than the object itself. By the 1980s, a younger generation of artists began reintroducing emotional meaning into their work, as Amado has done using materials as conveyors of metaphoric content.
A practitioner of conceptual abstraction, Amado works in several mediums and chooses his materials to facilitate poetic meanings. To create an abstract yet convincing representation of tears or sorrow, he has used a background of latex, which is fragile and vulnerable, and added three droplets of glass, a material that is breakable and precious.
(David Rubin, Label text 2008)Not on view
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