Improvised
Artist/Culture
Laxma Goud
(Indian, born 1940)
Date1971
Mediumetching and aquatint on cream wove paper
Dimensionssheet: 50 x 36.6 cm (19 11/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection
Object number2002.417
Label Text2005-02-26: K. Laxma Goud (b. 1940)
Improvised
1971
A.P.; etching and aquatint on cream wove paper
Gift from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2002.417
Laxma Goud was deeply influenced by Pablo Picasso's works depicting minotaurs, creatures from Greek mythology with the head of a bull and body of a man which symbolized the oneness and duality of sexual power and tender, divine creativity. Looking to his own heritage, Goud most often identified himself with hybrid goat- and bird-like beings.
In this cryptic image, which blurs distinctions between that which is god-like and that which is human or beast-like, Goud shows two androgynous figures dressed in loincloths (one with wings). They stand on either side of a dark phallic shape that encapsulates a surrealistic conglomeration of sexual attributes aOn View
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