'Till it was all leavened: Imitating Ellsworth Kelly

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Imitating Ellsworth Kelly

First, Elisabeth observed Ellsworth Kelly's work.

Then she created her own.

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2 comments:

Dylan said...: Unrelated to Elisabeth's interacting with the art (which was good), could you give me any insight into why Kelly's work is considered worthy of being in a museum? My question is based solely on the photo of his art that was in the post.

Thanks.; 9:05 PM
Graham said...: I'll try to give the short answer. Much of modern art is experimentation with primary forms (line, color, space). So what gets into museums is not necessarily beauty, but a certain kind of creativity (and having name notoriety helps a lot).

My sense is that Kelly's work made it into the museum on both counts. (Interestingly the panels are painted meticulously uniformly, such that you can't see any brush strokes, and follow a gradation from yellow through greens, purples, oranges and back to yellow - creating something like a circular spectrum.); 11:06 PM

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