MOMA

In the San Francisco Museam of Modern Art I was drawn to Stanley William Hayter's painting Marrionette. After walking  the second floors show I found myself glued to this painting for half an hour. Marrionette is comprised of oil on canvas and is made up of red, yellow, and orange verticle scribbles that go up and down the canvas. These scribbles create the back drop for a black abstract figure. In a couple of  Ellaborate strokes Haytergives the figure what appears to be a head and breast that are made in a circular motion, as well as arms, neck, legs and a torso all of a single stroke. At any rate when the lines come together they create a simple stick figure. The piece is approximately 3" x 2" and it's bight width and overall mounting on the gallery wall gives the playfully effect of a six year old creating the art work. The work looks so primitive almost as if made during the stone age, yet it's technique is so simple anyone could have created it. The piece is so abstract using lines circles and different colors makes up a varge discription of what may make up a womens body. Hayter seems to appropriate inspiration from Jacksons Pollock's Lavender Mist as well as Jean Bastioche's SOMe.

I choose this piece in regards to the fact that my doodles sometimes come out looking similar but some how I never had the courage to acknowledge them as a work of art.