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Man and woman abstracted into blocks/grid of red, blue, white, black, and yellow.
Figuras Constructivas
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Figuras Constructivas

Artist Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874 - 1949)
Date1946
MediumOil on board
DimensionsSight: 14 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (37.5 x 29.8 cm)
Frame: 24 3/16 x 20 1/2 in. (61.4 x 52.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Daniel DelRowe
Object number2001.35
Collections
Visual DescriptionMan and woman abstracted into blocks/grid of red, blue, white, black, and yellow.
Portrait of a woman wearing a hat.
Rostro de mujer
Joaquín Torres-García
1940
Cubist inspired still life in earth tones of brown, red, black and green representing items on a desk including book, pipe, pitcher, bottle and box among other things.
Naturaleza muerta con libro abierto (Still Life with Open Book)
Augusto Torres
1968
A vintage pilot stands against a radiating background. Eight circles labeled "mortgage", "taxes", "recession", "insurance", "inflation", "education", "credit", and "health" surround him. Below reads "AMERICAN KAMIKAZE".
American Kamikaze
Rubén Torres Llorca
2004
Urban landscape combining geometric abstraction and representative images suggestiong buildings, a ship, the sky, clouds, and a dolphin among other objects. Colors are muted using greys, browns and some white.
Constuctivo con cielo y nubes (Construction with Sky and Clouds)
Augusto Torres
1963
Wooden board with handle, surface painted on both sides with amuletic images: off-white, green, violet, red, black. Side 1)A row of colored diagonal blocks on the top, with a central circle with Arabic inscriptions, and a scalloped pattern on the bottom. Side 2) an abstraction of a reptilian creature with a grid design on its back, inscriptions in each square, and surrounded by other marks.
Divination board
Hausa Artist
late 20th- early 21st century
A patchwork quilt featuring a grid of log cabin patterned squares. The blocks consist of concentric strips of fabric in muted tones of cream, brown, dark blue, and red arranged around lighter central squares.
Quilt
American Artist
undated
A geometric painting consisting of solid color blocks. A large bright yellow rectangle sits left of a darker yellow vertical rectangle. A narrow band across the bottom is divided into darker yellow and orange segments.
Mojave VII
Ludwig Sander
1970
A black robe with an embroidered badge on the front. A silver pheasant is embroidered on the badge, a motif of the 5th-rank civil official. The bottom half and the neck are bordered in a brocade applique consisting mostly of butterfly and floral designs made in green and blue thread. The front of the sleeves has blocks of magenta, grey, pink, cerulea, and pale yellow filled with different patterns including birds of paradise, lotus flowers, the eternal knot, and Buddhist swastika symbol. Black c…
Black Robe with Rank Badge of Silver Pheasant
Chinese Artist
early 19th century
Multi-stranded, polychrome glass beadwork bracelets with fiber substrate, bordered of red, yellow and white beads with center sections in blocks of brass beads and blue and white striped beads.
Wedding Bracelets for Bride
Moroccan Artist
c. 1974
Color print of four slender green trees with a shared bushy canopy overlap geometric color blocks. The background features a light blue top edge, a large yellow rectangle on the left, and an angled, mottled deep red block at the bottom.
Campus Palms UF
Roy Wood
1995
Portrait of a woman with dark hair, wearing a red blouse, with a blue backdrop.
Head of a Woman
Aaron Bohrod
undated
A round reddish-brown clay pot. Its neck is painted with alternating red and blue vertical stripes. The shoulder features a patterned band with a white-outlined brown zigzag and green and red triangles, bordered below by a blue line.
Lidded Vessel
Zulu Artist
undated

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