Not exact matches
For the second week
in row, and the third week within the past five weeks, $ GLD tested and held
support at the $ 123 area (pink
rectangle on the chart above), then reversed to close near the highs of the week.
But the
supports themselves were shaped
in a variety of ways, ranging from squares and
rectangles to trapezoids, hexagons, and even zigzags.
David Ryan's Set 2 (c) also seems to have some doubling going on, this time within the one painting,
in the repetition of
rectangles that occupy different spaces, one
in lime green, one
in yellow ochre and one
in white, as well as the containing
rectangle of the
support.
The encounter between geographies, disciplines and histories at the core of Meppayil's work prompts what Benjamin H.D. Buchloh identifies as «a latent desire to leave behind the parameters of pictorial space and its
supporting surfaces, reaching for an ultimate sublation of the painterly
rectangle in a numinous architectural space.»
As
in all the «chapters», the size of the wood panel
supports fit Quaytman's modular criteria of the artist's ten sizes; the square and
rectangle shapes are closely related as the artist strictly adheres to using the ratio of the golden section
in all of the panels.
The individual shaped canvases, liberated from hefty
supports, are able to float above and below each other, interacting
in space and with the wall, without reference to a guiding principle of the
rectangle.
This may be observed
in Ohm Home, as two
rectangles kiss on the square painting
support, creating an offspring of isosceles triangles.
The exhibition begins with a selection of early works from the 1960s
in which the artist inaugurates his mode of tracing hand - drawn geometric figures within the outline of a shaped
support, and continues through the 1970s, featuring examples of Mangold's Circle paintings and A Triangle Within Two
Rectangles paintings.
Rectangles provide lumbar
support on sofas or
in armchairs.