Asger Jorn
Danish, 1914 - 1973Untitled, 1967
Not on view
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions35 7/16 × 24 7/8 in. (90 × 63.2 cm)
Image: 27 3/4 × 21 3/8 in. (70.5 × 54.3 cm)
Museum purchase, 1969.57
Asgar Jorn became one of the major Expressionist artists of the period following World War II. The artists Ensor and Klee provided strong early influences for his work. Jorn has always been committed to art as an immediate, existentialist activity and opposed to a rational, constructivist approach. He was the principal figure in the activities of the influential CoBrA group (1949-51). Jorn's paintings and graphics, of violently swirling patterns of raw colored pigment with figurative elements emerging like phantoms, reflect the artist's desire to reach buried levels of human experience and reflect his attachment to Scandinavian myth and folk art.
