Compact blocks of bright colors that comes border and calm the sharp blade of a curved line, an abstraction rid of the weight of pathos as much as the theory in favor of capturing landscapes snippets: the work of Ellsworth Kelly a way to color block party. It is in any case not soluble in the times nor the pictorial movements. The American artist died Dec. 27 at age 92, in Spencertown, in the State of New York. A few months after his last exhibition in May, on the walls of his New York gallery, Matthew Marks, and shortly after the publication in Paris of the first volume of the catalog raisonné (1). It was also anticipated that the present during a roundtable at the Whitney Museum, January 21.
Friendly neighborhood
It did not take him long to find procrastinate his pictorial arc, tense, safe and sensitive, based on color and shape, but avoids the jolts of the hand and paint accidents. Born May 31, 1923, he studied painting at the School of Museum of Fine Arts Boston, from 1946 to 1947 before crossing the Atlantic to Paris, which is still, to a chandelier or two, the capital of the modern Art. Until 1954 he saw and met Arp, Brancusi, Picabia, Giacometti drawing in this neighborhood friendly a way to put the volume in the tables, amplify and complicate the relationship between content and form.
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