wood and lacquer (plastic) Archives - Phoenix Art Museum https://phxart.org/art_medium/wood-and-lacquer-plastic/ Art, Culture, Film in Downtown Phoenix, AZ Wed, 01 Jan 2025 08:05:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://phxart.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PAM-Favicon.png wood and lacquer (plastic) Archives - Phoenix Art Museum https://phxart.org/art_medium/wood-and-lacquer-plastic/ 32 32 Tri-Circle (Tri-círculo) https://phxart.org/arts/tri-circle-tri-circulo/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:47:14 +0000 https://phxart.wpengine.com/arts/tri-circle-tri-circulo/ At this time in his career, Theodore Roszak was interested Constructivism, an austere form of abstraction that favored industrial forms and materials. He was also a student of the Bauhaus style of modernism and taught at the Design Laboratory, a government-funded experimental design school co-founded by Irene Rice Pereira and others. Working with wood and

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]]> At this time in his career, Theodore Roszak was interested Constructivism, an austere form of abstraction that favored industrial forms and materials. He was also a student of the Bauhaus style of modernism and taught at the Design Laboratory, a government-funded experimental design school co-founded by Irene Rice Pereira and others. Working with wood and plastic, Roszak sought to eliminate subject matter in his work from 1936 to 1945. His wall-mounted sculptures from this period, including Tri-Circle, possess an uncompromising sense of structure and form. After 1945, he abandoned Constructivism for welding and a more expressionistic style.

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