abstract "landscape", Brion Gysin

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Brion Gysin, abstract "landscape"
Brion Gysin, abstract "landscape"
Brion Gysin
abstract "landscape"
1941
Brion Gysin
1916–1986
abstract "landscape", 1941
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: watercolor; heavy paper; decalcomania
Credit line: Loaned by the Estate of William S. Burroughs
Accession number: L1990.018
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Exhibition Label: "Brion Gysin: A Selection of Books and Works on Paper," Feb-2005, Steve Goddard and Joanna Sternberg The view of the world as seen from an airplane led to Gysin’s landscapes in decalcomania. Decalcomania, a technique used by many of the Surrealists, is a technique in which slightly viscous pigment is sandwiched between two surfaces, which are then separated. The mottled, happenstance patterns that result can be reworked, or not, as the artist wishes.