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- School of Art and Design Permanent Collection
- One woman, his wife Marie, in movement with yellow headscarf, green scarf; print 10/70; black frame white mat board. The work composes of two heads looking perpendicular directions. From right to left, the first head seems to be in the forefront but Douglas overlays the nose of the second figure onto the first. The figures appear to be wearing middle class French attire.
- Importance of work: The work at first seems like a portrait but upon closer inspection is actually a form of realism in which the work actually depicts movement. Gorsline’s technique derives from certain elements of cubism, surrealism, and social realism, and he earned so much praise that he became the first artist to be invited to China. http://www.musee-gorsline.com/Histoire.html?lang=fr
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Douglas Gorsline
American 1913-1985
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Douglas Gorsline
Douglas W. Gorsline was an American painter and writer. He started out as a painter of social realism, though his more mature style was influenced by cubism, surrealism, and photographers of movement such as Étienne-Jules Marey and Edweard Muybridge.
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