Paper, acrylic paint, dye and lithograph on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Welcome to the Water Planet
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/james-rosenquist-1866" aria-label="More by James Rosenquist" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">James Rosenquist</a>
Skull Snap
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
abstraction
adults
body
coin
diagrammatic
domestic
emotions, concepts and ideas
figure
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
head / face
individuals: male
Lincoln, Abraham
man
man-made
miscellaneous
mousetrap
named individuals
non-representational
objects
people
photographic
portraits
skull
tap
text
texture
<p>Like the other prints in Rosenquist’s <span>Welcome to the Water Planet </span>series, this work combines coloured paper pulp and collaged elements, printed using the lithographic process onto handmade paper sheets. <span>Skull Snap </span>also includes an overlaid image printed in relief. It is the design on the US one-cent coin, featuring the profile of President Abraham Lincoln and the motto ‘In God We Trust’. Here, magnified and stylised, it resembles a topographic map. This hints at the dollar as a global, or even cosmic, power.</p><p><em>Gallery label, January 2019</em></p>
paper print acrylic paint dye lithograph
22 November 2004 – 4 April 2005
2005-04-04
15 November 2004
2004-11-15
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2004-11-22
Tyler Gift
Collection based display
Skull Snap
image: 1511 × 1511 mm
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
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<p>Like the other prints in Rosenquist’s <i>Welcome to the Water Planet </i>series, this work combines coloured paper pulp and collaged elements, printed using the lithographic process onto handmade paper sheets. <i>Skull Snap </i>also includes an overlaid image printed in relief. It is the design on the US one-cent coin, featuring the profile of President Abraham Lincoln and the motto ‘In God We Trust’. Here, magnified and stylised, it resembles a topographic map. This hints at the dollar as a global, or even cosmic, power.</p>
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abstraction adults body coin diagrammatic domestic emotions, concepts and ideas figure formal qualities from recognisable sources head / face individuals: male Lincoln, Abraham man man-made miscellaneous mousetrap named individuals non-representational objects people photographic portraits skull tap text texture