AH439MIDTERM - Louis/Tet (veil series)

Artist: Louis, Morris
Title: Tet (Veil series)
Date: 1958
Nationality: American
Context: Post WWII, NY School
Movement: Color Field
Materials: synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Subject: abstract veils of color; example of Greenberg's Formalism (form is the content).

Style: adopts Frankenthaler's "soak-stain" method; secretive about process; kept part of the canvas attached to risers and part free; directed flow ofpaint with long sticks fastened with gauze on the end; pigment and surface of the canvas become one; fans outward and all-over on the Veil series.

Context: Greenberg's Formalism emphasizing surface and form as content; logical and systematic, unlike Frankenthaler's more intuitive process.

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