Sketchbook 2, Image 6

Sketchbook 2, Image 6

This sketch is an extension of the general tendency throughout these sketchbooks of Parsons' experimenting with mixing different mediums. With this image, in particular, the interplay of line, color, and medium can be seen as a precursor to the ideology behind later collages. In the lower of the two sketches of the young girl color and line become an alternative method to the purely figurative, substituting the reality of the sketch directly into abstraction. This substitution gives a new life to the figure, creating movement in an otherwise still image.

Eunice Parsons

Eunice Parsons Papers

1958-1960

8.5" x 10.5"