This Note relates to the shaped painted work Vortex 1968
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notes from the 1960s paintings
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VORTEX
1968
Acrylic on linen canvas stretched over wooden structure.
Description:
the wooden frame was constructed by careful angling of the joints. The plan view of the base is an irregular lozenge rather than a square. The campus was stretched and fastened back upright. The colour areas were applied to strengthen the "saddle" effect which such a structure would mathematically produce.
Exhibited:
Dates:
commenced and finished September 1968
Size:
36" x 28" x 26"
Sale:
Notes:
the development from the other sculptural pieces and the more direct use and possible development of a series of such pieces based on mathematical constraints is interesting. The very means by which the pieces are made rely on the resolution of physical forces, and the direct reliance on mathematical functions seems a natural past to follow.
Slide to Lilly Hitch, Design Art Centre Brisbane, $220, 25th of February 1969.
