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Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
#3 Paris
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
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#3 Paris

Artist/Maker (United States, 1906-2004)
Date1937
Mediumenamel on wood
DimensionsOverall: 43 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 4 in. (110.5 x 90.2 x 10.2 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Terms
    Object number91.0020
    DescriptionBiederman’s #3 Paris belongs to a developing period in the artist’s work when he abandoned painting, drawing, and collage in favor of the three-dimensional constructed relief. Named for the city in which it was made, #3 Paris is a boldly executed study of geometric planes of painted wood placed at right angles. Although Biederman would dismiss the idea, Mondrian's influence is apparent in the work. In seeking to achieve a revolutionary art form with his reliefs, Biederman distanced himself philosophically, stylistically, and technically from the European "isms" he had come to disdain and with which he might be associated. He advanced an original "structurist" philosophy ordered around geometry and rooted in Cezanne's theories of abstracted nature. The Lowe's #3 Paris, an early work, is made of wood painted in primary colors; after the 1940s Biederman developed a new medium for his mature reliefs - industrial aluminum strips spray painted in a range of colors. While Biederman's work is often dismissed as a footnote to Constructivism in its various manifestations, it is, in fact, a highly original art form that deserves further attention.
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