The back still sports
a concentric circle motif which focuses on from the ASUS logo, but the pattern isn't nearly as apparent now with the gaps being finer than ever.
Organized by Suzette Lane McAvoy, the museum's adjunct curator of contemporary art, it presents canvases from every phase, beginning with early, freely painted concentric circles and going through the more rigorous chevrons, diamonds, plaids, asymmetricals and stripes of later years to his recent «Mysteries» series, which revisits
the concentric circle motif of his youth.
Not exact matches
Impressed by the «stain» paintings of Morris Louis, Noland developed a pictorial language of spare, often bright abstraction centered on
concentric circles and repeated chevrons,
motifs that he would utilize throughout his career.
By 1960, the
motifs had become crisp, target - shaped
concentric circles of contrasting colours on a square canvas.
Berlin Abstraction incorporates general allusions to German military pageantry found in the other War
Motif paintings: the sleeve cuffs and epaulets of uniforms; a helmet cockade denoted by two
concentric circles; and the blue - and - white, diamond - patterned Bavarian flag.
The
concentric circle, or target, has been one of the predominant
motifs in American abstract painting for the last half - century or more, and, as a result, to wring unexpected changes from it has become increasingly difficult.