Between 1958 and 1965, Ellsworth Kelly made a number of figure/ground paintings, closely related compositions on rectangular canvases using two or three colors–most often red, green, and blue, but also including white and black. Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue traces the evolution of this body of work, distinguished by large, unmodulated fields of vibrant color dynamically balanced on the picture plane in simple rectilinear and curvilinear shapes. In these paintings and a constellation of related works on paper, Kelly blends an elegant, rigorous abstraction with a close observation of the forms in his surroundings.
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