Red and Green Art Essay

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Red and Green Art Essay
with a few - touches of Blue

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Green with Red
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), American
Lithograph, Edition of 75, 24" x 36" (w x h), 1964

Source, Smithsonian Notes:
Painter Ellsworth Kelly emphasized pure form, color, and spatial unity in a practice that majorly influenced Pop art, Minimalism, and hard-edge and color field painting, along with the development of American abstraction at large. His spare, often irregularly shaped canvases offered a crucial departure from the gestural abstraction that dominated American painting in the middle of the 20th century. He envisioned fine art as a compliment to modern architecture. Since his first retrospective in 1973, at the Museum of Modern Art, Kelly has been the subject of a number of high-profile solo shows at institutions including the Guggenheim, the Tate, and the Centre Pompidou. At auction, Kelly's art regularly sell for seven figures.

2
Study for Red Green Blue
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), American
Oil on paper, 32" x 40" (w x h), 1964
Gift of artist, 2008
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

3
Red Green Blue
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), American
Oil on canvas, 66" x 90" (w x h), 1964
Gift of the T. B. Walker Foundation, 1966
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

4
Reds, Greens
John Hoyland, (1934-2011), British
Screenprint on paper, 36" x 24" (w x h), 1969
Tate Museum, London

John Hoyland RA, a London-based British artist, was one of the Britain's leading abstract painters. More on Wiki HERE.

5
Red Umbrella
Milton Avery (1885-1965), American
Oil on canvas, 42" x 25" (w x h), 1945
Princeton University Art Museum

Source, Princeton Notes:
In 1944, Milton Avery abandoned the brushy paint application and detailing of his earlier paintings to create works with smooth, flat areas of broadly modulated, vibrant color. Texture increasingly was conveyed by scratching onto the painted surface with a sharp object, reducing the illusion of depth by calling attention to the picture plane. This technique enabled Avery to move closer toward pure abstraction without relinquishing his fundamental commitment to representation. The resulting spare aesthetic heightened awareness of his sophisticated color harmonies, in which space was articulated less by form than by the subtle relationships among various hues.

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Reclining and Seated Female Nudes
on a Red and Green Cloth /
Liegende Und Sitzende Weibliche
Akte Auf Rot-Grünem Tuch
Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Austrian
Gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper,
18" x 13" (w x h), 1912
Egon Schiele
Sotheby's 2008 NY auction estimate:
$400,000 - $600,000 USD

Source, Wiki:
In 1907 Egon Schiele sought out Gustav Klimt, who generously mentored younger artists. Klimt took a particular interest in the young Schiele, buying his drawings, offering to exchange them for some of his own, arranging models for him and introducing him to potential patrons. More on Wiki HERE.

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The Garden / De Tuin
Jacobus Van Looy (1855-1930), Dutch
Oil, 54" x 38" (w x h), 1893

Source Arthur is a Digital Museum:
Van Looy, a painter and a writer, painted The Garden in the summer of 1893 when he returned from a visit to Paris. Due to the light touch and abrupt cropping, the painting fits in with French Impressionism. In the Netherlands, interest in this was not large at the end of the 19th century. As negative as the newspapers wrote about his painting when it was exhibited in the art society Arti, his colleagues were positive. The then director of Museum Boijmans was "perplexed" by the work and Isaac Israel noted: "It's the best painting there is [in Arti], so there's no question of whether you should have the medal." Van Looy painted the canvas directly outside en plein air. While the expansive flower sea of nasturtiums, slaapmutjes and sunflowers suggests life in the country, the canvas was created in the Amsterdam Pipe, in a garden on the Rustenburgerstraat. The newly married couple lived there in 1892. The woman in the background is Van Looy's wife, Titia van Gelder.

Read More about Van Looy on Wiki HERE (English) or with images HERE (Dutch)

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Amaryllis
Asada Benji, (1900-1984), Japanese
Watercolor with pen-and-ink outline on thin mulberry paper,
16" x 11" (w x h), Circa 1960-1961
Gift of Professor George Rowley
Princeton University Art Museum

Source, Ronnin Gallery, NYC:
Benji Asada was a Kyoto-based woodblock print artist and painter active in the Sosaku Hanga (Creative Print) movement during the early 20th century. He trained at the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts, as well as the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting. Asada regularly exhibited both prints and paintings in national art exhibitions both before and after WWII. In 1959, he received the Minister of Education's Prize at the Second Shin Nitten Exhibition. In 1965, he won the Japan Art Academy Prize and served as an adviser for official fine arts exhibitions. Many of his woodblock prints were published by Uchida Company, though he self-printed some work as well.