{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"9211"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"1975 Artothek des Bundes, Dauerleihgabe im Belvedere, Wien"},"locationssite":{"label":"Location","value":"Upper Belvedere"},"invno":{"label":"Inventory number","value":"Lg 721"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"During several visits to Paris, Maria Lassnig explored Surrealism and non-figurative painting. In view of the danger of \u201cdegenerating into sterile abstraction,\u201d as she put it, however, on her return to Vienna in 1954 she sought a middle way between figuration and abstraction. Dispensing with physiognomic details such as nose, eyes, and mouth, in this painting she deconstructs a head into planar components\u2014\u201ccheek plates, forehead plates, neck cylinders.\u201d Despite what appears at first sight to be a formal abstraction, the way of focusing and reduction are clear references to Lassnig\u2019s \u201cbody awareness painting.\u201d"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil on canvas"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"1"},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Head"},"classification":{"label":"Genre","value":"Painting"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/146176/full"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"ca 1954"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"10196869"},"iiifManifest":{"value":"https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-9211/manifest"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"46 × 46 cm"}}]}