Untitled
Lucas Samaras American, born Greece
Not on view
The artist once said, "Because I was Greek, I could deal with the body freely. Consider the Greek Vases." In 1985, Samaras began a series of expressive self-portraits in ink based on his own photographs. This drawing depicts the artist crying out in anguish, while another in the series (MMA 1986.416.47) juxtaposes his stoic face next to that of the dying mythical Greek giant Alkyoneus, copied from the frieze of the Pergamon Altar (ca. 200–150 b.c.). Samaras created these so-called Dot Drawings by placing photographs on top of a light box and stippling over them on a second sheet of paper in ink.
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