Colored Paper Image XVIII (Green Square with Dark Grey): Axsom Cat. #158, 1976
From an edition of 22
31 ¾ x 30-7/8 inches (80.6 x 78.4 cm.)
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Ellsworth Kelly was a prominent American artist acclaimed for his color field and minimalist abstract paintings. He first developed the love for bright colors in a place many wouldn’t think of – the suburbs of Northern New Jersey, where his grandmother first introduced him to birdwatching. As a young man he served in WWII, part of a unique unit of artists dedicated to misleading the Axis forces using faux military vehicles and camouflage, the latter of which would also go on to influence his artistry. After the war, he studied art in Boston and Paris, where he developed his abstract and monochromatic techniques. Kelly experimented with different geometric shapes and forms, which would become a signature of his artistic style. Beyond his iconic paintings, he was also an accomplished sculpture artist, with many large-scale installations throughout the world.
Featuring Kelly’s signature bold colors and clean shapes, the camouflage hues of this piece evoke the artist’s early military work. Kelly once explained ‘I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it, […] and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.’