The Eye That Sees Everything
Man Ray
1919
- Medium
- Airbrush and brush and gouache on tan wood-pulp laminate board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 × 24.6 cm (12 1/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- Gouache
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintavant-gardegouacheprints and drawingwatercolorpapercoating (material)drawingwater-base paint
About
In 1918, in New York, Man Ray decided to paint without making use of any of the traditional tools of the painter-neither an easel, nor brushes, palette, or tubes of color. Instead, he used a spray gun, and he called the resulting paintings "aerographs." The All-Seeing Eye, while not an "aerograph," is informed by Man Ray's experiments with industrial techniques.
![[Dead leaf]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7df22157-4739-43bd-9995-80f1e0ef6b00/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![[Tree Trunk]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/fac4c28a-0523-4a18-9603-6f1d93959d61/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![[Mlle. Athanasion]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d91084c6-a3d0-43fb-bf6f-2f6488596363/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![[Broken chair with stump and ballet shoes]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1dc92d01-70c0-404b-b25d-c3b72d1854eb/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![[Juliet with vines]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c5eabe6c-abfd-47b8-b769-3e21138f46a7/full/843,/0/default.jpg)