THE GUERNICA PASSAGE
One structure, thirty years.
232 WORKS · 1990 – 2020
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Jeff read a book about how Picasso made Guernica. He considered it the most important painting of the twentieth century — the one that showed what painting could do when history demanded something of it.
“Nice and big. Used it as a direction, a structure to work against.” JEFFREY F. S. NEUMANN
That was sometime around 1990. The series ran for thirty years. The composition — warplanes, compressed bodies, fractured geometry — became a scaffold he could build anything on. The materials changed decade by decade: prism paper, compact discs as halos, vinyl, target forms, whatever was available. The structure underneath stayed.
Across the works, warplanes, fractured geometry and concentrated marks recur while materials and combinations change.
What follows is all 232, in order. Walk.
END OF THE PASSAGE
He is still reworking
old Guernica pieces today.
old Guernica pieces today.
The structure underneath stayed.