Modest . 1962
Iannone’s collages, made in 1962 during an extended visit to Kyoto, share an interest in assembling found objects into momentos of deeply personal lived experience. Influenced by traditional Japanese paper art, oriental elements such as ikebana and Zen gardens, as well as the syle of the New York School painters, Beat generation collagists and Fluxus poets, Iannone developed the series of collages entitled Flower Arrangement with gold leaf and Japanese paper, to which she would later attribute a profound influence in her turn towards figuration. Continue reading Dorothy Iannone
