This first major museum exhibit to survey Kent's entire career features more than 200 screen prints, including early abstractions and text pieces, as well as more lyrical works made in the 1970s and 1980s.
Kent (1918-86), who has largely been forgotten, was hugely influential during her lifetime.
Kent and her students sometimes visited the Eames' home in Pacific Palisades on field trips. It was there that the Eames' interest in using photography to investigate the visual details of everyday life gave her a fresh perspective on photography as a creative tool.
Thus, many of the prints have text that looks skewed or bent, as if manipulated in Photoshop, but they were actually based on photographs Kent took of magazine ads, billboards, hand-painted signage and other references. She often bent or manipulated many by hand that, when photographed, became two-dimensional, but dynamically distorted, type.
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Kent (1918-86), who has largely been forgotten, was hugely influential during her lifetime.
Kent and her students sometimes visited the Eames' home in Pacific Palisades on field trips. It was there that the Eames' interest in using photography to investigate the visual details of everyday life gave her a fresh perspective on photography as a creative tool.
Thus, many of the prints have text that looks skewed or bent, as if manipulated in Photoshop, but they were actually based on photographs Kent took of magazine ads, billboards, hand-painted signage and other references. She often bent or manipulated many by hand that, when photographed, became two-dimensional, but dynamically distorted, type.
Courtesy TribLive.com
see http://triblive.com/aande/museums/7701289-74/kent-warhol-art#axzz3RCFvjKao
