Untitled (Life under the sea)

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Untitled (Life under the sea)

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). Protozoan organisms float as if suspended between the glass plates of a microscope. Spindly-legged starfish jostle with bundles of claw-like appendages, and a pair of amoebic forms cast delicate, beaded webs over the surface of the painting. Locked in a mysterious narrative, these creatures are drawn from disparate artistic traditions, as well as from Len Lye’s extensive maritime experience and fertile imagin...

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Image

Date created

circa 1930

Creator

Len Lye

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/637819

Related subjects

oil paint / canvas / paintings / Surrealist / Aquatic animals / Seas / Polynesia / London

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