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DiaporamaPrescience
Surrealism
1942
72.0 x 103.0 cm
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Howard’s biomorphic abstractions were shown in numerous Surrealist exhibitions in England and the United States. This work, executed in San Francisco in the summer of 1942, was the artist’s prize-winning entry in the Artists for Victory competition, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art that winter. Although its iconography is obscure, Howard wrote that works like this were meant "to recall shapes and relations of things which are common to all mankind."
Charles Houghton Howard (? – ?)
Charles Houghton Howard is an abstract artist blending Cubism and Constructivism, celebrated for works like 'Prescience' and prize-winning achievements; discover the dynamic interplay of color and form in his captivating art.
About this artwork
- Title: Prescience
- Artist: Charles Houghton Howard
- Year: 1942
- Original dimensions: 72.0 x 103.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Movement: Surrealism
- Corpus context: cubism , early modernism
- Keywords: color block art , biomorphic shapes , 1942 artwork
- Perceived brightness: shadow
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