Wie das Gras (Like the Grass)
<p>The Swiss textile artist Lissy Funk created highly distinctive pieces, usually hangings. While most hangings are made as tapestries—and, indeed, Funk was strongly influenced by this art form—she made hers in needlework, a technique normally confined to small-scale, domestic contexts. Acquired directly from the artist's heirs, <em>Wie das Gras</em> is a major work executed during the last and most exuberant period of her career. It juxtaposes areas of various colors, textures, and types of stitching, which together suggest the topography of a landscape, with a rich array of mysterious letter-like symbols that are unique in the artist's oeuvre.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1977
- Dimensions
- 207.3 × 255.3 cm (81 5/8 × 100 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Lissy Funk
Artist
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Sankt Valentin (Saint Valentine)
1996 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, rayon, silk, wool, and metal-foil-wrapped cotton in padded satin stitches; laid work and couching
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1987 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and cotton threads in buttonhole stitches; laidwork and couching
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1987 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and silk in laidwork and couching
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1987 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, hemp, cotton, horsehair, and silver beads in detached buttonhole, detached trammed buttonhole, and bullion knot stitches; a variety of laidwork and couching, buttonhole and overcast bars; coiling in lazy squaw stitch; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered in overcast stitches; beaded
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1987 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk yarns in back, buttonhole, darning, overcast, padded overcast; Roumanian, running, satin, and stem stitches; a variety of laid work and couching
Sample
1987 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, hemp, silk, and cotton in a variety of laid work and couching with overcast and buttonhole bars
Record
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- Lissy Funk
- Year
- 1977
- Dimensions
- 207.3 × 255.3 cm (81 5/8 × 100 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1977-132137
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified