
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Kazimierz Makowski born 1951
- Original title
- Ochrona Srodowiska
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 482 × 766 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Professor Akumal Ramachander 1985
- Reference
- P11086
Catalogue entry
Kazimierz Makowski born 1951P11086 Defence of the Environment 1983
Lithograph 482 x 766 (19 x 30 1/8) on paper 619 x 860 (24 3/8 x 33 7/8); printer unknown, publisher unknown, not editioned
Inscribed 'CYKL "OCHRONA SRODOWISKA" [...]' below image b.l. 'K. Makowski' below image b.r., and 'Litografia [...]' below image bottom centre
Presented by Professor Akumal Ramachander 1985
The shafts radiating from the top centre are full of small details giving the impression of apocalyptic stirrings. A mass of detail is enshrouded by cloud-like forms as the top of the image. At the top left are two interlocking spheres. A scroll wrapped around the bigger of the two reads 'Goliat'.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.412
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