El jardín de Claudio
Artist
Jaime Romano
(Puerto Rican, born 1942)
Date1981
Object number88.1677
Mediumacrylic on canvas
Dimensions48 1/16 x 42 1/8 in. (122 x 107 cm)
frame: 48 1/8 x 42 1/8 x 1 1/4 in. (122.2 x 107 x 3.2 cm)
frame: 48 1/8 x 42 1/8 x 1 1/4 in. (122.2 x 107 x 3.2 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Collections
Description[REPLACE/ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION - SEE BELOW] During the 80s, Romano explores the proposition of the controlled accident. He covers the surface with strips of adhesive tape and dribbles on the pigment, which partially penetrates beneath the tape. The artist repeats the process until he achieves just the right balance between the controlled and the accidental.
[NEW DESCRIPTION] During the 1980s, Jaime Romano explored the idea of the controlled accident. He would cover the canvas with bands of duct tape and drip paint all over, which would then seep through or partially leak beneath the tape. The artist repeated the process until he achieved the right balance between control and chance. The continuous vertical lines in this composition are the result of paint buildup under the tape. This technique produced a pasty pictorial surface, leading critics to describe paintings like this one as examples of abstract impressionism.
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