Sentences with phrase «triptych pure red»

Ed Schad writes about unexpectedly encountering Alexander Rodchenko's triptych Pure Red, Pure Yellow, and Pure Blue (1921) on a trip to Mexico City.

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Alexander Rodchenko, Pure Red, Pure Yellow, and Pure Blue, 1921, Oil on canvas, Triptych, Each panel, 24 5/8 x 20 11/16 inches (A. Rodchenko and V. Stepanova Archive, Moscow)

Looking at these triptychs, one might have thought for a moment of Aleksandr Rodchenko's iconoclastic Pure Red Color, Pure Yellow Color, Pure Blue Color of 1921, except that where the Russian Constructivist's work was meant to boil down painting to its primary colors, what the artist called its «logical conclusion,» Levine's wooden panels are invested in painting's history: The color of each is derived from the digital averaging of the hues in one of Renoir's many zaftig yet jaundiced nudes.