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Prelude 15
UNITED STATES · 1996

Prelude 15

Stan Brakhage
abstract expressionism geological transformation underground imagery printmaking techniques dissolution and decay
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Synopsis

Doubly-printed striations of "brush-strokes" through multicolored "rock" forms dissolving then to blackened "mud" eliciting increasing sense of being under earth.

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