Sock It To Me Baby Tube Etching No. 3
<p>Frank Piatek’s use of the tube traces back to several images that impressed him as a young artist. These include pictures of spaghetti that the Pop artist James Rosenquist employed in his paintings, as well as images of American astronauts tethered to their capsules during the first walks in space. “Sock it to me” is an expression that became a popular colloquialism after 1967, when Aretha Franklin recorded her version of Otis Redding’s 1965 song “Respect,” for which it served as a coda. It gained further notoriety when the popular television show <em>Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In</em> adopted it as a punch line for a recurring joke.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1967
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 39.1 × 58.1 cm (15 7/16 × 22 7/8 in.); Sheet: 43.4 × 62.2 cm (17 1/8 × 24 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Francis Piatek
Artist
Painting
Frank Piatek was an American artist, known for abstract, illusionistic paintings of tubular forms and three-dimensional works exploring spirituality, cultural memory and the creative process. Piatek emerged in the mid-1960s, among a group of Chicago artists exploring various types of organic abstraction that shared qualities with the Chicago Imagists; his work, however relies more on suggestion than expressionistic representation. In Art in Chicago 1945-1995, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA) described Piatek as playing “a crucial role in the development and refinement of abstract painting in Chicago" with carefully rendered, biomorphic compositions that illustrate the dialectical relationship between Chicago's idiosyncratic abstract and figurative styles.
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- Francis Piatek
- Year
- 1967
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 39.1 × 58.1 cm (15 7/16 × 22 7/8 in.); Sheet: 43.4 × 62.2 cm (17 1/8 × 24 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1967-139454
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- verified