What is Carborundum?
Carborundum is the trademark name for silicon carbide crystals used as an abrasive material in sandpaper, cutting tools and grinding wheels. Artists originally used the substance for grinding lithography stones, but collagraph prints use it to create texture and tone gradients.
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Georg Jiri Dokoupil
Goldblau, 2018
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Carborundum
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Antoni Clave
La Gloire Des Rols I, 1975
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Carborundum
EUR 1,130
Otto Piene
Zyklop Gelb, 1984
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Carborundum
EUR 2,400
Antoni Clave
Untitled, 1970
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Carborundum
EUR 1,130
Antoni Clave
El guant, 1971
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Jasper Johns
Untitled, 1988
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Carborundum
USD 21,000 - 30,000
Jasper Johns
Untitled, 1988
Limited Edition Print
Carborundum
USD 41,000 - 45,000
Anti-art describes artwork which challenges accepted art definitions. The term is said to have been created by artist Marcel Duchamp who worked with the art media called readymades; everyday items presented as art to defy traditional expectations that art should be high art.
This is one of the forms of abstract art that uses geometric forms placed into a non-illusionistic space (though not always) and then combined into non representational(non objective) compositions. From the experience and results of the many years of research in the area of art, artists have suggested that the process of geometric abstraction can be a solution to the modern problems where some artists have been rejecting illusionistic practices.
New Topographics is the term created in 1975 by William Jenkins to describe photographers whose work was mostly formal black and white images of urban landscapes. He felt their aesthetic was banal, but the photographers felt their compositions were as important as natural landscapes.
