Artworks

Thanksgiving and Other Holidays, 1986

  • Artist

    Emilio Cruz

  • Title

    Thanksgiving and Other Holidays

  • Date

    1986

  • Medium

    Oil on canvas

  • Dimensions

    72 3/4 × 82 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (184.8 × 210.2 × 5.7 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the artist

  • Object Number

    1994.5.2

In Thanksgiving and Other Holidays, Emilio Cruz creates a contradictory image by juxtaposing the festivities associated with holidays with a jarring scene layered with numerous visual elements. The study in contrasts is further enforced by the smooth application of paint versus the drawn-on motifs. The amalgamation of elements grew out of the artist’s study of various cosmologies, religions, and philosophies that took root in his practice in the later 1960s and came to fruition in the 1980s. In Cruz’s vision, influenced by Hindu thought, life is a constant contradiction where the opposite is also always true.


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Artworks

Thanksgiving and Other Holidays, 1986

  • Artist

    Emilio Cruz

  • Title

    Thanksgiving and Other Holidays

  • Date

    1986

  • Medium

    Oil on canvas

  • Dimensions

    72 3/4 × 82 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (184.8 × 210.2 × 5.7 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the artist

  • Object Number

    1994.5.2

In Thanksgiving and Other Holidays, Emilio Cruz creates a contradictory image by juxtaposing the festivities associated with holidays with a jarring scene layered with numerous visual elements. The study in contrasts is further enforced by the smooth application of paint versus the drawn-on motifs. The amalgamation of elements grew out of the artist’s study of various cosmologies, religions, and philosophies that took root in his practice in the later 1960s and came to fruition in the 1980s. In Cruz’s vision, influenced by Hindu thought, life is a constant contradiction where the opposite is also always true.


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