1927, Stuart Davis, Percolator -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Influenced by the Cubist language of flat, overlapping planes and wedges (see Gallery 908 and 910), Davis used geometric shapes in related colors to create this still life. Here, he deconstructs the cylindrical forms of a mass- produced, percolator coffeepot and renders the everyday object both abstract and identifiable. By choosing an industrially produced consumer product as his subject, Davis put a new spin on the spatial innovations of the previous decade's European avant-garde art movements.
1927, Stuart Davis, Percolator -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Influenced by the Cubist language of flat, overlapping planes and wedges (see Gallery 908 and 910), Davis used geometric shapes in related colors to create this still life. Here, he deconstructs the cylindrical forms of a mass- produced, percolator coffeepot and renders the everyday object both abstract and identifiable. By choosing an industrially produced consumer product as his subject, Davis put a new spin on the spatial innovations of the previous decade's European avant-garde art movements.