Wanda Gág’s World

In Gág’s prints, inanimate objects appear to wobble in space, tilting this way and that in defiance of the logic of linear perspective. Gág elaborated on her perception of space in a 1938 application for a Guggenheim fellowship grant, writing: 

“To me, perspective is more than a mechanical set of rules—I see in it the potentialities for rhythmic forcefulness and even emotional significance. With form and space it is the same: a still life is never still to me, it is solidified energy—and space does not impress me as being empty.”