abstract "landscape"

Brion Gysin, artist

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

Not on display

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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.