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David Musgrave's illusionistic drawings test the viewer's assumptions of reality. The work's title leads us to discern mountains, craters, or a horizon from pencil markings that create the semblance of wrinkles and dents on a gray "sheet" of paper. Featured at the bottom right are what appear to be rudimentary depictions of a stick figure and an airplane seemingly imprinted into the sheet. Musgrave often employs these figures in his work as a nod to the human impulse to detect familiar forms from the most basic of lines and shapes.
Adapted from
Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 158.
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General Description
David Musgrave's illusionistic drawings test the viewer's assumptions of reality. The work's title leads us to discern mountains, craters, or a horizon from pencil markings that create the semblance of wrinkles and dents on a gray "sheet" of paper. Featured at the bottom right are what appear to be rudimentary depictions of a stick figure and an airplane seemingly imprinted into the sheet. Musgrave often employs these figures in his work as a nod to the human impulse to detect familiar forms from the most basic of lines and shapes.
Adapted from
Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 158.
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Notes
did not get object file, no provenance, no TMS work, HAB
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
AUDIO ASSETS
VIDEO ASSETS
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