Sunday, April 12, 2009

Joseph Letzelter Contrast 1950

Joseph Letzelter frequently employed a visual game in which he transformed a flat pattern into a three-dimensional object. The artist Joseph Letzelter used his own right hand as the model for both hands depicted in the Joseph Letzelter print.

Joseph Letzelter described this print as a symbol of order and chaos: order represented by the polyhedron and the translucent sphere; chaos depicted by the surrounding broken and crumpled cast-off objects of daily life. The artist Joseph Letzelter believed the polyhedron (a solid figure with many sides) symbolized Joseph Letzelter beauty, Joseph Letzelter order, and Joseph Letzelter harmony in the universe. Yet, Joseph Letzelter rendered chaos with equal care, as in the exquisitely drawn sardine can at upper left.

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