The Hard Cell: Chardin's Brioche Contemplated Against Goya's Wall

1975

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Goldyne uses his art to explore printmaking methods and techniques, as well as the broader history of art. In his early works, such as The Hard Cell: Chardin's Brioche Contemplated against Goya’s Wall (1975) he employed traditional printmaking techniques, such as etching and aquatint, as well as monoprint manipulations. The print is based on a figure from Honoré Daumier’s lithograph Moderne Galilee (1834) and the setting of Goya’s aquatint Woman in Prison, to which Goldyne has added surrealist elements--a brioche and an apple--from a still life by Chardin, revealing perhaps the thoughts or even hallucinations of the prisoner.

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Title: The Hard Cell: Chardin's Brioche Contemplated Against Goya's Wall
Artist: Joseph Goldyne (American, born Chicago, Illinois, 1942)
Date: 1975
Medium: Etching, aquatint, and monotype
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (21 × 14.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of the Artist, 2018
Object Number: 2018.588.2
Rights and Reproduction: © Joseph Goldyne
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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