<I>Maputo #5</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1993
name: label: Created by
content: Alvin DeMar Loving Jr., American, 1935 - 2005
notes: label: Caption
content: Al Loving was inspired to create Maputo #5 as a visiting artist at the 1992 Ujamaa Workshop in Maputo, Mozambique. “The opportunity to experience an entirely different way of thinking about art was experiential. The collective energy of 23 people (and more at times) making art simultaneously in the same (gigantic) space has an electrifying effect on [my] aesthetic production.”
label: Caption
content: Loving described his art-making process as “composing.” He constructed Maputo #5 by dripping, spattering, and spraying brightly hued dyes onto colored rag paper; tearing and cutting the paper into curvilinear and rectangular shapes; and then layering the shapes into dynamic compositional forms.
label: Description
content: A painting consisting of acrylic paint on formed and shaped rag paper, mounted on plastic. Forming a rough "V" shape, the work combines a red rectangle for the right-hand upright section, and a curved black oval with green and yellow for the left-hand upright section. At the juncture between the two are a cluster of curvilinear forms in solid and mottled shades of red, brown, green and yellow, extending up the two uprights.
place: label: Place made
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.37.2
objectType: label: Type
content: acrylic paintings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Alvin D. Loving, Courtesy the Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: acrylic paint on rag paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 29 × 33 × 1 in. (73.7 × 83.8 × 2.5 cm)