It looks like this is the work of a man who was 24 and didn’t know what he was going to do, and is a great relief to collect the past [in the form of a book] and see the sequence of what I did.
Kelly lives and works in Spencertown, a hamlet three hours north of New York, where he moved in 1970 perhaps to escape the hustle and bustle of the city, but mostly because he needed a place; when Ellsworth Kelly arrived in New York after six years in Europe in 1954, Kelly discovered that the artist environment was open to his particular approach to abstraction.
Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 — December 27, 2015) was one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. His own path with memorable explorations of form, color and form laid the foundation for many of the principles of minimalism, hard painting, color field and pop. Rarely had an artist working with abstract forms been so approachable in terms of pure joy that his work evokes.
His development of monochrome and layered painting, his dedication to holistic forms, and his use of randomness and seriality would prove crucial in paintings that broke with Expressionism in the 1960s. He exhibited his work in a group exhibition in the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1957, exhibited in an exhibition of works on paper and an exhibition of his prints in 1987-88 in the USA and Canada and a career retrospective.
In November 2019, Christies set a record by an artist with Red Curve VII for $ 9.8 million. Large wallscale colors are one of Kelly’s early experiments into multi-panel paintings, a key motif throughout her career. Austin, which is conceived by Kelly as a place of joy and contemplation, will be the cornerstone of Austin.
Kelly has provided six decades of career a collection of plastic forms explored through paperwork, painting, and architecturally sensitive sculpture. Kelly served in the military during World War II, which allowed him to study art from the mid to late 1940s in Boston and Paris under military law. In 1970, Kelly began to create large-scale outdoor sculptures and public art that are in museum collections around the world and public places in cities like Chicago ( Curve XXII, also called I Will [
Kelly’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and has received many awards : some of his exhibitions include retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art (1973), the Whitney Museum of American Art (1982) and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1996).
Brancusis’influence stretches from French Romanesque and Byzantine art to Mondrian, Surrealism and Neoplasticism, creating a collection of works that test the abstraction of geometry and observe the natural world simultaneously. For him, also painting is important: his simplification of natural forms and innate spiritual energy are
Kelly never received Picasso properly – although the artist once offered to give him a ride (Kelly was too shy to agree) – but her spirit hovered over the city’s artist community. His work may have changed very slowly since then, but the transition to abstraction took place over a period of several months.
Kelly was born in Newburgh, New York, about 60 miles north of New York, the second of three children, Allan Howe Kelly and Florence Rose Elizabeth (Hitens) Kelly.
