somebody had to break the rules
Corita Kent, somebody had to break the rules, 1967, color screenprint on Pellon, Museum Purchase: Print Acquisition Fund, © Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, CA, 2016.89.1
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- Title
somebody had to break the rules
- Artist
- Date
1967
- Medium
color screenprint on Pellon
- Catalogue Raisonné
CAC 67-12
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 29 7/8 in x 36 1/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: Corita, graphite, lower right
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
stencil print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Print Acquisition Fund
- Accession Number
2016.89.1
- Copyright
© Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, CA
- Terms
Kent delighted in combining and subverting the traffic signs of freeway culture, unmooring them from their traditional, directional role. Here a red arrow embellished with a poem by Robert Frost competes with reversed signage for a service entrance. Meanwhile, the sliced-up slogan of Dash dishwashing liquid—"Somebody had to break the rules"—could stand for Kent's own artistic manifesto for experimentation.
- Exhibitions
2016 Corita Kent: Spiritual Pop Portland Art Museum
2023 Throughlines: Connections in the Collection Portland Art Museum
