Don Quijote Segunda Parte
Artist
Izhar Patkin
(Israeli-American, born 1955)
Date1987-1989
CultureAmerican
MediumAnodized aluminum
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1990
Object numberSN5536
In reaction to the formality and abstraction of Minimalist art, some artists in the 1980s began to use the figure in an overt and highly ironic way. At the time it was made, Izhar Patkin's Don Quijote Segunda Parte seemed primarily to refer to kitsch because it borrowed from popular culture and used industrial and non-traditional artistic materials. Now - at the distance of some years - the sculptor seems both rather sincere and successful in his attempt to create monumental public sculpture of a recognizable subject in a historicist idiom. This work is neo-Rococo in style and its pastel colors and flower-like modeling reflect Don Quixote's strange perception of himself as a fine-looking dandy.
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