Illumination Gothic
Richard Pousette-Dart
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Date:1958 -
Style:Abstract Expressionism -
Genre:abstract -
Media:oil, linen
Illumination Gothic
Richard Pousette-Dart
Pousette-Dart developed his pantheon of diamonds, circles, and organic shapes into vertical compositions in the 1950s and 60s. The thickly layered forms in this work suggest an underwater seabed, a stained glass window, or the streaming refractions of filtered light. Where in earlier paintings there are still some distinct, quasi-representational forms, the elements here are abstract and fluid, diffused across the colored ground.
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