Colors for a Large Wall
Ellsworth Kelly
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Date:1951 -
Style:Hard Edge Painting -
Genre:abstract -
Location:Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US
Colors for a Large Wall
Ellsworth Kelly
The large-scale Colors for a Large Wall is one of Kelly's early forays into multi-panel paintings, a fundamental motif throughout his career. Colors for a Large Wall helped introduce his deeply held view of paintings as objects; not only was this painting an object in itself, but it was comprised of many smaller objects (panels) supposedly having come together in chance collision. In this work, Kelly covered each of the 64 square canvases in a single color and fused them together based on a collage study he had arbitrarily arranged. Much of Kelly's subsequent work stemmed from this painting, as he continued to juxtapose panels of differing sizes, shapes, colors and materials in innumerable variations.
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