This red and black painting hung at the Modern when I was a young painter myself. There are Motherwell's of a similar structure.
They must have influenced my own Achilles/ Tent painting, though subconsciously . Most definitely we liked the stripes and the bang they produced. Like on the dark side, Watch Out!
An mysterious opening into space or a warning like a poisonous insect.
Classic paintings hard to photograph.
I like the shaped canvas which he wrestled with for the rest of his life-- between painting and sculpture. An image or the thing itself. The grey painting in rear a tunic of sorts, then, the star--.
Here is the beginning of a physicality and the question put to a painting. A thing itself or a representation in space.
Another side emerged, remember Noland was there too with the stripe and the athletic connotations.
It all then starts to become physical in a different way. Leading to the next years and a new pictorial representation in space.
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