Related to Pen VIII
Julio Gonzalez
1939
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and white chalk, over graphite, on buff wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30.8 × 20.8 cm (12 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
This sketch for one of the artist’s iron-welded forms conveys Gonzalez’s increasing fear and anxiety in response to the Spanish Civil War, a concern he shared with his countrymen Picasso and Miró, both of whom devoted much of their art in the 1930s to the subject.
