Wall
Medium: etching and aquatint, on arches cover paper
Year of Work: c. 1976-1979
Size: 16.3 in x 14 in. (41.3 x 35.6 cm)
Edition: 8/50
Biography
Ellsworth Kelly, evading critical attempts to classify him as a Color Field, hard-edge, or Minimalist painter, has redefined abstraction in art, establishing himself through his drawings, paintings, sculptures, and prints as one of the most important artists of his time. Kelly's visual vocabulary is drawn from observation of the world around him—shapes and colors found in plants, architecture, shadows on a wall or a lake—and has been shaped by his interest in the spaces between places and objects and between his work and its viewers. He has said, "In my work, I don't want you to look at the surface; I want you to look at the form, the relationships."
Kelly (1923-2015) has been the subject of major exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and his work is in many public collections, including those of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and Tate Modern, London.
References
- Marks, Matthew. "Ellsworth Kelly." - Matthew Marks Gallery. Matthew Marks Gallery, n.d. Web. accessed 9 June 2016.