Bancketje (Banquet)
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Object Details
- Artist
- Beth Lipman, born Philadelphia, PA 1971
- New Acquisition Label
- Beth Lipman's tour-de-force glass sculpture Bancketje (2003) is a twenty-foot-long oak table laden with 400 blown and lampworked glass objects. This piece captures the visual sumptuousness and excess of a feast like the ones depicted in seventeenth-century Dutch still-life paintings called "bancketje." Like these elaborate scenes, Lipman's half-eaten morsels, overturned goblets and snuffed candles symbolically depict the transience of life. By rendering the scene in transparent glass and skillfully blending the various components, Lipman demands that the piece be seen as a whole, not an assemblage of individual objects.
- Beth Lipman is renowned for her sculptural compositions which re-interpret Renaissance and Baroque still-life paintings from Holland, Flanders, and Italy, as well as from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Lipman takes elements from these paintings—static composition, expressive light and opulent decoration—and translates the scenes into three dimensions.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2007
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance
- 2003
- Object number
- 2007.21
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts
- Crafts
- Medium
- glass, oak, oil and mixed media
- Dimensions
- 72 x 240 x 33 in. (182.9 x 609.6 x 83.8 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Record ID
- saam_2007.21
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk791a68dda-6c28-40f4-88c4-d09fb80e4867
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