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Word: hansnamuth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is especially true of the Open paintings, which consist of broad fields of color whose only additional feature is an HANSNAMUTH incomplete rectangle or trapezoid, formed by three or four lines of charcoal or black paint, that seems to give access to a field behind the field. This enclosure may be strict-edged or fuzzily tremulous, but it always conveys the impression of architectural form-a window or a door, a passage from inside to outside. A painting like Summer Open with Mediterranean Blue, 1974, creates a strikingly concise yet opulent impression of landscape by these pared means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of Anxiety and Balance | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

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