Earth Dog
Earth Dog is from a series of photographs of the artist’s dog, Stella. Seen against a solid-colored background, the the body of the black dog flattens out into a nearly abstract form. Rovner strips away all extraneous incident and reduces her subject to its essence -- an aesthetic strategy that describes nearly all of her work. All life is borne by the dog’s half-shut eyes and soft, lyric ear -- minimal elements that nonetheless communicate trust and hope from across the universe that separates man and animal.
Artwork Details
- Title: Earth Dog
- Artist: Michal Rovner (Israeli, born 1957)
- Date: 1987
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: 76.2 x 76.2 cm. (30 x 30 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Joyce and Robert Menschel Gift, 1992
- Object Number: 1992.5156
- Rights and Reproduction: © Michal Rovner
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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