Animal; a.k.a, Faded Glory by Albert Urban
Animal; a.k.a, Faded Glory
Albert Urban
Title
Animal; a.k.a, Faded Glory
Artist
Albert Urban
1909 - 1959 (biography)Year
1945
Technique
color screenprint
Image Size
16 5/16 x 11 11/16" image size
Signature
ink, lower right
Edition Size
not stated
Annotations
ink dated after the signature
Reference
Paper
thin cream International Mimeo wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
17881
Price
$400.00
Description
Albert Urban is able to translate the application of paint onto the canvas into the layering of screenprinting inks on a sheet of paper with ease, owing perhaps to the abandon with which he uses the two mediums. There is no suggestion of hesitance in the composition of “Animal,” or of the ways in which the artist must act with careful precision in order to maintain the feel of immediacy in printmaking. We see instead an almost jarring confidence in Urban’s abstract depiction of the complex beauty of transition - in this case, from life into death.