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Collection highlights
The graceful figure of a giraffe is a good motif for a graphic image. The composition of the work is simple and has been taken from a nature photograph or postcard showing a clumsy animal in a comical pose. Due to the poor quality of printing the screen used while making this work has become an independent artistic method and a symbol of its own. It is one of the means of expression in a process in which the elements of mass culture and mass production are taken over by the aesthetic system of 'high art', merging concepts of 'unique', 'elitist' and 'professional' with 'low', 'mass' and 'cheap'. Elnara Taidre

Kadri Alesmaa
Giraffe

 
Artist: Kadri Alesmaa Visnap (1970 - )
Title: Giraffe
Date: 2001
Technique:
Material:
lithography
paper
Height (cm): 76.0
Width (cm): 57.0
Dimensions: sheet size
Description: The graceful figure of a giraffe is a good motif for a graphic image. The composition of the work is simple and has been taken from a nature photograph or postcard showing a clumsy animal in a comical pose.
Due to the poor quality of printing the screen used while making this work has become an independent artistic method and a symbol of its own. It is one of the means of expression in a process in which the elements of mass culture and mass production are taken over by the aesthetic system of 'high art', merging concepts of 'unique', 'elitist' and 'professional' with 'low', 'mass' and 'cheap'.

Elnara Taidre

Related categories: Contemporary Art
Copyright notice: Art Museum of Estonia
AME collection: Prints and drawings collection
Collection number: G 28320
Accretion number: EKM j 49953
Muis reference http://muis.ee/museaalView/252489
File info: Source type: digital photography
File type: TIF
Compression: Uncompressed
File size: 28.96MB
Resolution: 2688*3763px @ 300dpi
 
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