Ellsworth Kelly : colors for a large wall / Jodi Hauptman.

Author
Hauptman, Jodi [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : The Museum of Modern Art, 2023.
Description
47 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Subject(s)
Artist
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Series
Summary note
Ellsworth Kellys landmark 1951 work 'Colors for a Large Wall' is the culmination of an extraordinarily productive moment in the artists early career, a time when he developed his singular form of abstraction. After serving in the US Army during World War II, he returned to France in 1948 and lived and worked there until 1954. Connecting with artists of an earlier generation, discovering Paris with his peers, and surveying monuments of the past, Kelly began an audacious creative journey in which, paradoxically, he sought to eliminate "invention" from the process of making art. In this volume of the MoMA One on One series, curator Jodi Hauptman looks closely at the evolution of Colors for a Large Wall, unpacking Kellys toolbox of close observation of the world, chance procedures, collage and the monochrome, and examining his ambition to create art on a public, architectural scale.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (page 45).
Other title(s)
Colors for a large wall
ISBN
  • 9781633451568 (paperback)
  • 1633451569
OCLC
1393180317
RCP
C - S
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