Slipping from Paradise
Betye Saar
"Slipping From Paradise," a large-scale hand-made paper piece combines Saar's interest in the process of hand-made paper and the iconography of the occult. Such universal symbols as lightening, the crescent moon, the planet Saturn, a snake, an open palm, and the four card suits are depicted in vivid colors. While the paper pulp was still fluid, Saar embedded in its surface ceramic shards on the right and twigs on the left which form the large ladder that reaches skyward. The work is enclosed in a frame especially painted and designed by the artist for this work.
Artist
Date of Birth
(b. 1926)
Date
1986
Medium
Mixed media on handmade paper with custom frame
Dimensions
43 1/2 x 32 x 1 3/4 in. (110.49 x 81.28 x 4.445 cm.)
Accession #
1988.21
Credit Line
Gift of Marion Stroud Swingle and Funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
Copyright
© 1986 Betye Saar Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Category
Subject
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