Picasso 2

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
Price range: $

Duane Palyka

1981

Cibachrome
Includes letter
8.5"x11"

Description

Created at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab and exhibited at SIGGRAPH in 1981, Picasso 2 is a Cibachrome print in which Duane Palyka expresses his understanding of Cubist painterly process into digital form. The work presents four sequential states of a female nude, each increasingly deformed: the figure dissolves into blocky pixels, stretched and blurred until its anatomy becomes a craggy, unstable field. Rather than depicting a single composition, Palyka stages the image as an evolving set of possibilities, echoing his interest in how painters such as Picasso might develop parallel versions of a work from a shared starting point. The computer enables this iterative risk-taking, allowing line and form to be pushed, reversed, or redirected without loss.