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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
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Work Title (display):
Memorial II
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1994
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Ross Bleckner (American, born 1949)
Work Creator gender:
male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American painter. He completed a BA at New York University (1971) and an MFA at the California Institute of Arts (1973). In the early 1980s Bleckner made a series of stripe paintings, appropriations of Op art imagery over which he imposed miasmatic light effects and figurative elements such as humming-birds. His nostalgic reinterpretation of the optimistic, apolitical work of Bridget Riley took place in the light of politicized debates concerning the death of painting. Of these works, The Arrangement of Things (oil on canvas, 2.44×4.12 m, 1982; Boston, MA, Mus. F.A.) shows an expansive striped field, over which play subtly coloured areas suggestive of natural light. Bleckner took the dimensions of such works from Barnett Newman's Vir heroicus sublimis (2.42×5.14 m, 19501; New York, MOMA), alluding to the spirituality of Newman's example, although he describes the transcendent aspect of his own work as a 'degraded sublime'. In his subsequent paintings Bleckner often used symbolic, romantic imagery such as chandeliers and candelabras. His interest in such 'dead' imagery, and the elegiac, memorializing atmosphere it creates, connect strongly with the AIDS epidemic, a primary concern in Bleckner's own life and work. Bleckner has described his paintings as 'meditations on light'. In the series Architecture of the Sky (198790) he distilled his technique of constructing an underlying geometry through which light can emanate. Architecture of the Sky (oil on canvas, 2.69×2.34 m, 1988; priv. col., see 1995 exh. cat., pl.50) shows what could be the interior of a vast dome, light entering through the oculus at the top and illuminating the impasto dots that define the spreading volume of light. Bleckner uses a range of materials chosen for their physical qualities, such as metal pigments and wax, and has also made many watercolours that continue his exploration of the symbolic and spiritual aspects of form and light. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-25)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
memory
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memory
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doves
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doves
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urns
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urns
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Work Subject:
memorials
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memorials
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Work Worktype:
oil paintings
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oil paintings
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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Work Material and Technique (display):
oil on linen
Work Measurements (display):
244 cm (H) x 305 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid:
278.1994
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid type:
accession
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Rights (display):
© Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Davis Art Images
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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