Untitled, (history) by Eunice Parsons
- Title: Untitled, (history)
- Artist: Eunice Parsons
- Medium: Collage
- Size: 12"h x 12"w
- Creation date: 2005
- Added to collection: 2019
- Donor: Gift of Mark Andres
- Campus: Rock Creek
- Location: B2/2 S Print gallery
Eunice Parsons frequently mines the realms of art history in her collages to create works that at once seem familiar but also new. Â The face of an unknown woman (possibly from a portrait by Ghirlandaio) becomes a melancholy witness to history: scraps from illuminated manuscripts (details of Gothic architecture, a wounded knight, the rear of a horse), a pair of groping hands from a wrecked magazine advertisement, French Fleurs-de-lis and playing cards, all evoke the game of war and its "zero" (see the clunky early computer key) sum game. Â The strange form below the woman (made from pieces of spray-painted paper) looks like a molten rock or an egg about to crack open. What could otherwise be a mish-mash checklist of elements is made into a seamless and unified whole by this artist's impeccable sense of the rightness of forms and their placement .