Here’s a little BLUESDAY inspiration from our American art collection, currently on view in Infinit
Here’s a little BLUESDAY inspiration from our American art collection, currently on view in Infinite Blue.Flat Surfaces, Arthur G. Dove’s last major canvas, serves as a poignant summation of his longtime quest for the “elimination of the non-essential.” Basing the composition on the view of the pond from his Long Island home, he distilled the landscape into flat, hard-edged geometric shapes that approach pure abstraction. Though an intimate of the photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s circle of modern artists, Dove preferred to live and work outside the city in proximity to nature. Considered the first American artist to produce purely nonrepresentational pictures (in 1910), he used form and color to express his deep spiritual feelings about the natural world.Arthur G. Dove (American, 1880-1946). Flat Surfaces, 1946. Oil on canvas, 27 x 36in. (68.6 x 91.4cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 55.21. © artist or artist’s estate -- source link
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