Video Description: New York School 1950s-Growth of Artistic Ideas Toward the Realm of the Spiritual
Dr. Robert Metzger Art Historian, Director of the Reading Art Museum, Reading, PA, conducts the discussion with New York School artists of the 1950s on the "Growth of Artistic Ideas Toward the Realm of the Spiritual," May 4, 1997.
Participating artists: Richards Ruben painter, Buffie Johnson painter, Joe Stefanelli painter, Fred Mitchell painter, Robert Richenburg painter, Kyle Morris painter (represented by his son James Geoffrey Morris), Warren Padula sculptor, IIbram Lassaw sculptor, Nassos Daphnis painter.
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Lolipuf Channel
Nassos Daphnis, an Artist of Geometry
Nassos Daphnis, a Greek-American artist who deployed brilliantly colored geometric forms in precise formal relationships to create nervous, dynamic paintings on a heroic scale, died on Nov. 23 in Provincetown, Mass. He was 96 and lived in Manhattan.
Mr. Daphnis, a florist by early training and a renowned cultivator of hybrid tree peonies, drew on his sensitivity to color and his keen understanding of nature’s geometry to develop a precise, hard-edged painting style that harked back to Mondrian and looked forward to minimalism. Its dynamism depended on the tense juxtapositions of primary colors arranged in rectangles, squares and curved lines to create what he called “vibrations.”
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NYTimes.com.
Op Art
Op art, also known as optical art, is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions.
"Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing."
Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping.
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Wikipedia, Op Art
Golden rectangle
A golden rectangle
is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio,
one-to-phi, that is, approximately 1:1.618. A distinctive
feature of this shape is that when a square section is
removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle, that is,
with the same proportions as the first. Square removal can
be repeated infinitely, which leads to an approximation of
the golden or Fibonacci spiral.
Hard-edge painting
Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. The Hard-edge painting style is related to Geometric abstraction, Op Art, Post-painterly Abstraction, and Color Field painting.
This style of hard-edge geometric abstraction recalls the earlier work of Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Theo van Doesburg, and Piet Mondrian. Other artists associated with Hard-edge painting include Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Max Bill, Ilya Bolotowsky, Nassos Daphnis, Ronald Davis, Gene Davis, Burgoyne Diller, Peter Halley, Al Held, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Liberman, Agnes Martin, Kenneth Noland, Georg Karl Pfahler, Ad Reinhardt, Bridget Riley, Ludwig Sander, Leon Polk Smith, Frank Stella, Myron Stout, Leo Valledor, Victor Vasarely, Neil Williams, Mária Balážová and Larry Zox. Source: Wikipedia, Hard-edge painting.
Geometric Abstraction
Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions.
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