I am interested also by other works from the same era: as well as the wonderful 1977 Rational Concepts portfolio of prints (7 English artists: Norman Dilworth, Anthony Hill, Malcolm Hughes, Peter Lowe, Kenneth Martin, Jeffrey Steele, Gillian Wise) there's a delightful pastel colour study by Jean Spencer and two of Peter Lowe «s
reliefs from 1968 in perspex mounted on
wood, both 23 x 23 cm: Permutation of 4 Groups of 2 and Permutation of 4 Groups of 3, in which rational order and faktura combine to
produce objects of staggering beauty.
With a self - imposed mandate to free painting from the confines of two dimensions and release it into a three - dimensional realm, Mr. Stella changed gears in the early 1970s to
produce relief - like painted constructions made out of aluminum or
wood.
That's where he painted «Plant I,» his first use of a white form on a black ground, and
produced his first lithographs, collages,
reliefs and shaped -
wood cutouts.