Hold your Fire (Men and Machines)

Hold your Fire (Men and Machines)

Rosalyn DrexlerWW-1966-M118833
1966·Acrylic and paper on canvas·30 × 50" (76.2 × 127 cm)

Catalogue

Year
1966
Dimensions
30 × 50" (76.2 × 127 cm)

Artist

Rosalyn Drexler
Rosalyn Drexler

Rosalyn Drexler was an American artist, filmmaker, and novelist who worked across painting, collage, and mixed media from the 1960s onward. Her paintings combined figuration, text, and appropriated imagery drawn from popular culture, tabloid headlines, and mass media, rendered in a deliberately crude, confrontational style that resisted painterly refinement. She also made experimental films and wrote fiction that shared her work's mordant wit and engagement with the vernacular. Her practice challenged the formalist abstraction dominant in postwar American art by asserting the legitimacy of low materials and popular subject matter.

Bronx, NY, USA

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Year
1966
Dimensions
30 × 50" (76.2 × 127 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1966-M118833

Source

Source
moma
Status
verified

Artist

Rosalyn Drexler

Rosalyn Drexler

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