About this artwork
Craig Kauffman began exhibiting increasingly ex-perimental paintings in Los Angeles in the 1950s, evidencing a newly cool, clean-edged sensibility that would soon be called the L.A. Look. During the 1960s, Kauffman turned to acrylic plastic as the primary supporting surface for his work. Compared to a traditional, stretched canvas support, in Le Mur s’en va I the plastic support is translucent, curving over on itself like a sheet of paper, and suspended away from the wall (as well as quite close to the floor). Indeed, the work’s French title indicates the wall “leaving” or “departing.” This candy-colored painting serves as its own kind of spatial partition, simultaneously three-dimensional and ethereal.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Craig Kauffman
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Title
- Le Mur s'en va (The wall goes away)
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1969
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Medium
- Synthetic polymer on acrylic plastic
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Dimensions
- 185.4 × 120 × 22.9 cm (73 × 47 1/4 × 9 in.)
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Credit Line
- Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund
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Reference Number
- 1970.94
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