Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly, to take Kelly's eye out of his paintings would be to inflict death upon the very soul of his work--"I'm very interested in the measure of color (form and line as well)...color changes so subtly." For Kelly, the world is just "a bunch of fragmentation," a space defined thoroughly by perception. He has trained his eyes to detect the slices of everyday life that might elude other. At age 12, Kelly remembers walking by a window, a ready-made frame, which enclosed what appeared to him to be three colored, abstracted shapes. Intrigued, he approached...
...Kelly opted for more color. He fortuitously discovered papier gommette, colored construction paper with a nice shiny coat used by French school-children. Intent on discovering the mysteries of the color spectrum and in particular "what colors go well together," he attempted to rely on chance to shuffle his colors. In Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance (numbers 110-114), Kelly relates how he painstakingly divided his background into a grid of tiny squares and then randomly drew and assigned colors out of a hat for each square. "I'll never do that again!" he jokes...
However, Kelly did continue to use the same gummed paper for less tedious color work. The Nine Colors series of 1953-1954 (numbers 159-67) inspired his recent installation at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in downtown Boston. When I asked him if he realized that...
main mural (nine linoleum-smooth color slabstiled three-by-three), when viewed from thedifferent floors, actually appeared to not onlyshine with a soft radiance, but with a certainmagic? Was this a subtlety he had expected? Kellyreplied only with a quizzical look and promptlybegan telling the story of how he, a man of morecolors than words, convinced the judges (who wereactually real U.S. Justices) to choose hisinstallment over the other final entries. As theystood in front of the nine color panels, Kelly wasasked if there was any meaning to his choice ofcolors. In an unexpected incident of repartee,Kelly replied...
...Crimson took the color out of the Big Red, 4-2, Feb. 20 at Ithaca. Although the score was surprisingly close--Harvard crushed Cornell, 7-2, Nov. 21--both Big Red goals came harmlessly in the last 1:25 of the contest. Even so, the four Crimson goals fell short of Harvard's nation-leading average of 6.59 goals a game...