Jules Olitski, Instant Loveland 1968
© Jules Olitski/VAGA, New York and DACS, London 2002
Summary
Instant Loveland is one of the largest canvases Olitski has ever painted. From 1966, he began placing a greater emphasis on colour and explored the framing-edge. Along the top and sides of this work, coloured lines define the edge of what otherwise appears a film of delicate, tonally related colours (pinks, purples and greens). The surface of the canvas is emphasised by the spiky texture created in places by the varying densities of pigment. In his statement for the 1966 Venice Biennale, 'Painting In Colour', Olitski wrote: 'When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color ... appears to remain on or above the surface… (read more)
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