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Filtered Yellow

1968

Julian Stanczak

(American, 1928–2017)
Culture
America
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Measurements
Unframed: 182.8 x 243.8 cm (71 15/16 x 96 in.)
Credit Line
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1969.15
Copyright
© Julian Stanczak
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Location
228A Cleveland Artists
Print
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Did You Know?

After losing the use of his right arm in a Siberian labor camp during World War II, Julian Stanczak fled to a Polish refugee camp in Uganda where he learned how to paint and write left-handed.

Description

For more than a half century, Julian Stanczak maintained a distinguished career as an abstract painter interested in how vision works. Filtered Yellow features hundreds of alternating reddish and greenish razor-sharp vertical bands that create the illusion of a yellow shape, despite the absence of pure yellow paint. As typical of his work, it emphasizes a high level of technical mastery rivaled by few.
A horizontally oriented acrylic painting features columns of fine alternating reddish and greenish lines creating the illusion of yellow triangles extending across the canvas. The triangles appear as if a semitranslucent yellow paper has been folded over itself, the yellow darkening with the folded-over layers.

Filtered Yellow

1968

Julian Stanczak

(American, 1928–2017)
America

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