Pillar of Fire
Artist:
Irene Rice Pereira
(American, 1902 - 1971)
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
57 3/8 x 37 3/8 in. (145.7 x 94.9 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Charles M. Knipe, by exchange.
Object number: 95.3
Copyright: © Irene Rice Pereira
Label Text
Committed to geometric abstraction throughout her career, Irene Rice Pereira became known for her compositions of interlocking forms, which she executed in vibrant colors, as seen here, in Pillar of Fire. Pereira was fascinated by the idea of a fourth dimension that, in addition to length, area, and volume, includes space and time, and she developed a visual language to represent this space-time continuum. The artist wrote in 1950: “My philosophy is the reality of space and light; an ever-flowing, never ceasing continuity, unfettered by man-made machinery, weight, and external likenesses. I use geometric symbols because they represent structural essences and contain infinite possibilities of change and dynamics.”
(Label text, 2017)
(Label text, 2017)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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