Matt Mullican

(Five Color Key Screen Image)
1998

A graphic artwork featuring a series of colored rectangles arranged in a grid pattern on a white background. The top row has a red rectangle on the left and a black rectangle on the right. The middle row has a black rectangle on the left, overlapping with a smaller yellow rectangle centered on a larger blue rectangle on the right. The bottom row consists of a single green rectangle. The composition is reminiscent of modernist or abstract art styles.
A graphic artwork featuring a series of colored rectangles arranged in a grid pattern on a white background. The top row has a red rectangle on the left and a black rectangle on the right. The middle row has a black rectangle on the left, overlapping with a smaller yellow rectangle centered on a larger blue rectangle on the right. The bottom row consists of a single green rectangle. The composition is reminiscent of modernist or abstract art styles.

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Date
1998

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 15 3/4 × 19 5/8in. (40 × 49.8 cm) Image: 8 1/8 × 10 3/16in. (20.6 × 25.9 cm)

Accession number
98.75.7

Edition
AP 1/2

Publication
Printed by Domberger, Filderstadt/Stuttgart; published by Edition Schellmann

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/25461

Part of a series:
Sequences
45 works

A colorful abstract print featuring geometric shapes arranged to suggest a humanoid figure with a circular red patterned head, yellow neck, blue torso, and green legs, standing next to a black shape with a white circle on top.
A series of bone specimens, possibly human, arranged in parallel with varying lengths and shapes against a black background, all centered within a white border.
A collection of six pale yellow butterflies symmetrically arranged and pinned against a white background with a label that reads "Ourapteryx sambucaria."
A minimalist black and white graphic print featuring a central square surrounded by four icons at the cardinal points on a black background with horizontal lines. The icons appear to represent a person, a camera, a chat bubble, and a globe. The artwork is bordered by a wide white margin.
A minimalist black and white graphic with a central square and four icons at the corners inside a larger square, depicting a stylized representation of a soccer or football field.
A minimalist black and white graphic print featuring a central square surrounded by four icons representing a person, a camera, a speech bubble, and a globe, all set against a background with horizontal stripes.
A minimalist black and white graphic print featuring a central black rectangle with three horizontal stripes and four icons representing a person, a camera, a speech bubble, and a globe at the top. A smaller white rectangle is nested inside the black one on the bottom right. The image is surrounded by a wide white border.
A minimalist graphic artwork featuring a series of blue horizontal stripes with a central white square and four icons at the corners within the stripes, including a camera, a globe, a telephone, and a film reel, all set against a white background.
A minimalist graphic artwork featuring a blue rectangle with three horizontal stripes and a central square. In each corner of the rectangle are simple black and white icons representing a camera, a globe, a chat bubble, and a gear wheel, suggesting themes of technology and communication. The image is centered on a white background.
A minimalist graphic artwork featuring a series of blue horizontal stripes on a white background with a central square outline and four circular icons at the bottom, representing a camera, a globe, a wheel, and a film reel.

Matt Mullican
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