Rose Matrix IX
- Title
- Rose Matrix IX
- LC Subject
- Printing Print makers Prints--Materials Prints--Technique Lithography Lithography--Printing printmaking color lithographs lithographs
- Creator
- Haidle, David F
- Description
- A pink rose contained in a black box hovers over a collection of geometic, patterned shapes. David Haidle; Rose Matrix #9; Lithograph; Revenue Bldg; 1981; 26x33 inches The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts
- Location
- Oregon Department of Revenue >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 955 Center St. N. E., Salem Oregon
- Date
- 1975/2012
- Identifier
- 1986_salem_rev-bldg-vol-I_07_a01
- Accession Number
- 1986_salem_rev-bldg-vol-I_07_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Haidle, David F.
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Printmaking color lithographs
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1986 Salem Revenue Building, Salem Oregon (Vol. I) 1986_salem_rev-bldg-vol-I
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- second floor reception
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- Nature's instrinsic design is the theme and basis for much of my work. In the latest paintings and prints, life-like roses, butterflies, and orchids share equal space and attention with less familiar schematic images. Geometric configurations and computer imagery, which function as symbols of implied logic, order, structure and design, are in contrast with the simplicity and concreteness of natural forms. In creating these graphic schemas, I start with a grid or matrix as the basis from which all the geometric and computer imagery take shape. Thus the titles, "Rose Matrix" etc., allude to the function of the matrix as the unseen ordering force or guiding principle underlying the drawings. In the creative process, the matrix imposes limitations but also provides an ordering framework. A natural form, like a rose, in a similar way as the man-made function of the matrix, also reflects the existence of laws governing its form which are discernable but not visible. Science and technology have expanded our vision and thus our awareness far beyond common visible appearances. I am awed at the things revealed through science and technology concerning the unseen realm of nature. And yet, in scientific terms, this realm remains indirect, diagrammatic, and incomplete. A rose remains a complete entity to behold, appreciate and accept as a reflection of God's glory and handiwork. (David F. Haidle, 1986)
