AH439MIDTERM - Louis/Third element (stripe)

Artist: Louis, Morris
Title: Third Element (Stripe Series)
Date: 1962
Nationality: American
Context: post WWII, NY School
Movement: Color Field
Materials:
Subject: vertical stripes 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; pigment and surface become one; in the Stripe series he islolates the colors that before had been layered in 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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