Kite: Red Lines in the Sky, Tal Streeter

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Tal Streeter, Kite: Red Lines in the Sky
Tal Streeter, Kite: Red Lines in the Sky
Tal Streeter
Kite: Red Lines in the Sky
1970
Tal Streeter, artist
1934–2014
Kite: Red Lines in the Sky, 1970
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: paper; colored pencil
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 16.1 x 16.1 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 5/16 x 6 5/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 30.16 x 20.95 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 11 7/8 x 8 1/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Gift of Tal Streeter
Accession number: 1970.0200
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Exhibition Label: "Site Specifics,” Aug-2010, Susan Earle This drawing illustrates how Streeter used drawing to plan his kites, which he calls flying paintings. The color red in the drawing and in the actual kite nearby would stand in sharp contrast to the color of the sky. Streeter stated in 1974: “Working with very fragile materials, as opposed to putting up a steel monument that’s going to be there forever, is a very regenerating kind of thing. It’s a different mode of pleasure. In making sculpture one seems more involved with the artifact, while in a kite project I feel more involved with the process. If you share the process with others, then perhaps you’ve done the highest thing that art should do. There is no separation. “A Korean friend of mine said that the kite object itself was after the fact, that the process of flying things, of putting the line into the sky was the real act and art.”