Catalogue entry
T00523 POLYCHROMATIC G 1961
Not inscribed.
Canvas, 50×50 (127×127).
Purchased from the New Art Centre (Grant-in-Aid) 1962.
Exh: New Art Centre, May–June 1962 (16, repr.).
Repr: Studio, CLXIII, 1962, p.236.
The artist wrote (20 June 1962) that this painting was completed in the spring of 1961. In the same letter he explained that he had been concerned with the problem of modern art in relation to tradition, the development from Impressionism towards abstraction. He sought to maintain ‘painting localized in things rather than universal in application’. There was also the element of ambiguity, symbolized in this picture by the letter ‘G’ which could be equated with ‘gravity, Gagarin, Giusti etc. Especially the latter, a non-dramatic échorché figure from which a series of paintings have been particularized.’ The picture also includes the letters ‘f’ and ‘o’… (read more)
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