Gene Davis has a piece in the Walker, 'Untitled' made in 1960, which is the piece I chose to research because at first I didn't understand it. At first I perceived this painting as an illusion, with the black and grey stripes receding in space as it reaches the top and bottom edges of the canvas. Davis is considered an abstract painter and worked in a group of the same style painters, the color abstraction movement, in Washington DC in the 1960s. Davis describes himself as a jazz musician where he "plays by eye" as a musician plays by ear. He describes the importance of the 'color interval' creating a rhythmic effect with the irregular appearance of colors or shades within a composition.
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This is very insightful.
ReplyDeleteYes, you have some very interesting information here...I would be interested to hear how you feel about the work....
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