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  • NEW WORLDS – Scale

  • Josef Albers, who immigrated to the United States in 1933, became one of the main driving forces in American art in the second half of the 20th century with his series ›Homage to the Square‹. For the representatives of hard-edge painting, the image is not a pictorial illusion but a real object that occupies the wall of the exhibition space. They reject any recognizable artistic individuality and free composition of the image structure. Instead, the paint is applied extensively and evenly. The systematic division of the surface of the image emerges from its external form, which is not necessarily rectangular; rather, as in the case of Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland, it can take the form of various geometric shapes (»shaped canvas«). Thanks to their dimensions, the pictures make a strong impact on the space.
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  • Exh_Title_S: NEW WORLDS – Scale
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Works
Homage to the Square, Sonorous
Untitled (Flannery)
SCALE
  • Noland, Kenneth

  • SCALE, 1966

Untitled
Tomlinson Court Park I
Basra Gate III