Breaking Waves
In this print, Flight conveys the swelling momentum and churning energy of waves breaking with bold geometric forms. Like the Futurists and Vorticists before him, Flight sought to express the dynamism of life in motion through an abstracted visual language. The artist championed the medium of linocut, a relief-printmaking technique that utilized linoleum as an inexpensive, modern alternative to wood that was easier to carve and produced similar flat planes of color.
Artwork Details
- Title: Breaking Waves
- Artist: Claude Flight (British, 1881–1955)
- Date: ca. 1931
- Medium: Linocut
- Dimensions: Image: 9 1/8 × 11 3/4 in. (23.2 × 29.8 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, Leslie and Johanna Garfield Gift, Lila Acheson Wallace, Charles and Jessie Price, and David T Schiff Gifts, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Dolores Valvidia Hurlburt Bequest, PECO Foundation and Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.592.97
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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