AH439MIDTERM - Louis/Aleph.series II(floral)

Artist: Louis, Morris
Title: Aleph II (Floral Series)
Date: 1960
Nationality: American
Context: post WWII, NY School
Movement: Color Field
Materials: acrylic paint on canvas
Subject: abstract bursts 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 of paint with long sticks fastened with gauze on the end; pigment and surface of the canvas become one; works outward from center in the Floral series.

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









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