Word: diptych
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...silk-screened representation of a photograph taken of a Soviet drawing. The drawing itself hints of propaganda art. Meanwhile, it represents the work done with bricks, Lemieux's own. The figure's bold gaze redirects the eye, in case it has strayed, back down into the center of the diptych. Striking a balance between left and right is the work done by colors; both the figure and the brick units at left wear the same hues of olive, ochre, green...
...beautifully rich minimalism is found in Maria Lewis's "The Dyad," 1990-92, a golden diptych. Within each square canvas a burnished circle gives a sense of geometric completion to the doubling. Though the two materials Lewis uses are of a nearly identical color, the dryly stippled acrylic of the painted whole and shiny strip of the inset circles have entirely different, and revelatory, qualities...