Artwork Details
18 x 14-1/2 in. (image) 31-1/2 x 39 in. (sheet)
Accession NumberGift of Dr. Steven Conant in Honor of Mrs. H.L. Conant and Miss Joan D. Weisenberger
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteIn the 1980s, the prints issued by Tyler Graphics Ltd. and Gemini G.E.L. eclipsed the traditional boundaries of printmaking in their scale, materials and manufacture. While lithography provided the color in Rockburne's Melencolia, its character depended on the use of Transpagra vellum paper, which was cut and folded into perfect shapes, then mounted onto rag board.
In a quest to revive ancient notions of beauty, Rockburne began working with translucent vellum in 1978, which she folded into precise geometric shapes proportioned to the ratio of 1 to 1.618 . . . known since antiquity as the Golden Section.
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