Pungent Distances
Post-Painterly Abstraction
1961
232.0 x 151.0 cm
Morris Louis (1912 – 1962)
Descubre Morris Louis (1912-1962), pionero del Color Field! Explora sus innovadoras 'velos' de color, vibrantes tonalidades e impacto duradero en el arte abstracto.
Spare in design, but arresting in visual effect, Pungent Distances is part of a substantial group of paintings of stripes that Louis produced in the early 1960s. His pigment thinned with turpentine and his canvas stapled to a wall, the artist worked with controlled chance to create the impression that gravity produced the abstract design—even as the stripes’ upward trajectory seems to work against it. Louis’s thin paint merges with his unprimed canvas, becoming integral to its flat surface. He had adopted the technique of staining the canvas from Helen Frankenthaler, while the stripe motif recalls the vertical "zips" of Barnett Newman. The prominent critic Clement Greenberg applied the term "post-painterly abstraction" to works like this, by artists who sought to tame the highly pitched emotion of Abstract Expressionism of the previous decade.
Información de la obra
- Título: Pungent Distances
- Artista: Morris Louis
- Año: 1961
- Dimensiones originales: 232.0 x 151.0 cm
- Formato: Portrait
- Estado de derechos de autor: Bajo derechos de autor
- Paleta de colores: Neutrals
- Palabras clave: color field art , striped paintings , abstract expressionism
- Matiz de color: Golden Yellow Range
- Intensidad del color: Vivid