Special Exhibitions
Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection
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Special Exhibitions |
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Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection |
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Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection
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Highlights of the Exhibition
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Ellsworth Kelly (American, born 1923)
Study for Spectrum I, 1953
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Ellsworth Kelly (American, born 1923) gummed commercial paper as his raw material. He cut these papers up into squares and randomly arranged the pieces in varying densities across a grid. This work was made just a bit later using the same kind of paper, but this time the idea of developing a graduated spectrum guided the arrangement. In 1967, when asked what system of colors he used, Kelly replied that he worked by intuition. However, the artist recently remarked that at the Pratt Institute, where he studied in 1942, he learned the Munsell color system. Kelly’s arrangement of colors in the Spectrum pieces corresponds in part to the color sequences illustrated in Munsell’s books, which show a progression from yellow to green, blue, purple, and red, with many nuances in between.
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William Kentridge (South African, born 1955) |
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