The Hard Cell: Chardin's Brioche Contemplated Against Goya's Wall

Joseph Goldyne

1975 · Etching, aquatint, and monotype · Drawings and Prints

Goldyne uses his art to explore printmaking methods and techniques, as well as the broader history of art. In his early works, such as The Hard Cell: Chardin's Brioche Contemplated against Goya’s Wall (1975) he employed traditional printmaking techniques, such as etching and aquatint, as well as monoprint manipulations. The print is based on a figure from Honoré Daumier’s lithograph Moderne Galilee (1834) and the setting of Goya’s aquatint Woman in Prison, to which Goldyne has added surrealist elements--a brioche and an apple--from a still life by Chardin, revealing perhaps the thoughts or even hallucinations of the prisoner.

Artist

Joseph Goldyne

Date

1975

Medium

Etching, aquatint, and monotype

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of the Artist, 2018