Saturday, July 8, 2017

Morris Louis @ Honor Fraser


Number 4-32, 1962
Magna on canvas
82 1/2 x 46 inches



Number 1-51, 1962
Magna on canvas
81 3/8 x 18 7/8 inches


Delta Epsilon, 1960
Magna on canvas
104 x 151 inches



Alpha Kappa, 1960
Magna on canvas
105 x 151 inches


Para IV, 1959
Magna on Canvas
104 x 151 inches




Untitled, 1958
Magna on canvas
101 x 141 inches

Lamel Gimel, 1958
Magna on canvas
90 1/2 x 148 inches




Beth Gimel, 1958
Magna on canvas
135 x 94 1/2 inches



Material investigation
Control
The flow of time
Scale and Magnitude with respect to viewing in situ and viewing via blog et al
Short-lived career
Magna/Magma

An odd grouping of paintings all, it was instructive to see them together, to appreciate the exploration of paint as fluid, and to be surprised by just how short a career Louis' was, yet how lasting the oeuvre, particularly the mature works, the ones that we have come to more readily know.  These were what might be called B-sides in another vernacular, and what's wrong with that?

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