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Lamak Ornament

Lamak

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As early as 1928, Spies collected lamak motifs. The fleeting nature had to be banned, the transitoriness wrenched out. The message of the lamak consists in the fact that the power of a piece is present only in that very moment in which its creation has found its fulfilment. Afterwards, this object loses all meaning and is simply withered material. Spies immediately began to copy down the motifs of the lamak and to organise them.

Object data

Inv. No.

130908

Object Name

Pen drawing

Collector

Helene Potjewijd (1872 Meester Cornelis /Java - 1949 Wien)

Artist

Walter Spies - GND

Dated

ca. 1935

Accession Date

1946

Culture

Bali

Material

Graphite and ink, washed, on paper

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