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Spatial Conception
Early in his career, Fontana, a sculptor’s son, had concentrated solely on sculpture. In 1948, he began puncturing and, later, slicing canvases, creating what he called Concetti spaziali (Spatial Conceptions). Freeing the canvas from its traditional, two-dimensional status, he formulated a new pictorial language, no longer attempting to create an illusion of space but actually creating space. The …
Creator
- Lucio Fontana
- Lucio Fontana
Subject
- SlashCutConceptualAbstract
Type of item
- Photography
- Painting
- Art of painting
- Photography genre
Medium
- Watercolor on canvas
Creator
- Lucio Fontana
- Lucio Fontana
Subject
- SlashCutConceptualAbstract
Type of item
- Photography
- Painting
- Art of painting
- Photography genre
Medium
- Watercolor on canvas
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Rights
- Gift of Barbara Levinson, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum
Identifier
- 194191
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/photography/ProvidedCHO/The Israel Museum, Jerusalem/194191
Extent
- 66 x 55 cm
Providing country
- Israel
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2021-03-09T17:33:36.317Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-03-18T09:14:12.615Z