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George Chemeche Abstract Floral Lithograph #1242329

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George Chemeche Abstract Floral Lithograph #1242329
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Artist: George Chemeche

Year: 1979

Medium: Serigraph

Edition: 260

Paper Size: 36.5" x 32.5"




George Chemeche was born in 1934 and studied at the Avni Art School in Jel Aviv and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. The style with which he is intimately associated, pattern painting, is non-minimalist, sensuous, romantic, rational and decorative. Its methods, thematic material and referents range across cultural and class lines. The style is two-dimensional, non-hierarchical, allover and acentric. Because most viewers respond with delight to patterning, it runs counter to the modernist taboo against a decorative quality in art. Though pattern painting's roots are in modern art, it contradicts some of its basic tenets as it attempts to assimilate aspects of Western and non-Western culture not previously accepted into the realm of high art.



Though most people intuitively recognize patterning, it is difficult to define. The most serviceable definition is that pattern is the systematic repetition of a motif or motifs used to cover a surface uniformly. The spaces between motifs are either other motifs or are an integral part of the repeat. Whatever f9rm the painting takes, its flat and pictorial space is at a minimum.



What makes patterning in pattern painting different from patterning in the "functional" arts-weaving, mosaics and so on, and especially in the art of non-Western cultures-is partly the use of pigment on canvas, but also, and ...
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<tr><td>Condition:excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1979</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:36.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:32.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:George Chemeche Abstract Floral Lithograph</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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