'Early One Morning', Sir Anthony Caro

Artwork details

Artist

Sir Anthony Caro (born 1924)

Title

Early One Morning

Date 1962

MediumPainted steel and aluminium

Dimensionsobject: 2896 x 6198 x 3353 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1965

Reference

T00805

On display at Tate Britain

Theme: BP Walk through British Art

Room: 1960

Display caption

'Early One Morning' is a major example of the kind of sculpture - light, airy and open-form - which Caro had begun to develop by 1962. In this work, Caro's arrangement of planes and lines along a horizontal axis gave greater freedom in creating different rhythms and configurations. The work has no fixed visual identity and no single focus of interest. Rather, it unfolds and expands into the spectator's space, its appearance changing with the viewpoint. The individual elements are unified by the bright red colour and Caro sees the way they cohere, making a sculptural whole, as being like the relationship of notes within a piece of music.

August 2004