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- Title
- Fragile Words
- Item Name
- painting
- Maker
- Description
This heavily textured lacquer painting is an abstract image using dark blues and oranges that reflect and absorb light, making it changeable with time and place. It is signed in the lower left. This technique of painting is called Urushi. It is a long and demanding process, involving many layers of lacquer and sanding.
- Year
- 2002
- Place
- Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis
- Materials
- lacquer; wood
- Measurements
- overall: 24 in x 24 in
- Keywords
Women
Abstract
- Credit Line
- Donated by Rhonda and Kevin Fox-Waltz
- ID Number
- 71.2005.059.0001