Liebespaar (Lovers) Edition:AP 15-18 University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts

the artist was also commissioned to create an 80ft mosaic titled

His intricate designs seem to float off the surfaces and recall outsider art

eights and undulating waves that form a visual lexicon

My first great inspiration at age 14 was Daumier and the example he set with his profound vision of life and his unequalled draftsmanship

Liebespaar (Lovers) Edition:AP 15-18 University of MassachusettsWorking across various media, Richard Artschwager (1923 2013) specialized in the relationship between perception and deception. His print Liebespaar (Lovers), 2005, hints at two lovers embracing, and is drawn from a series of works in which the artist focuses on a material he has used throughout his career to explore the tactility of the visual experience: rubberized horsehair. The work allows for what the artist has called a perfect imprecision. A