Green Blue Red - Ellsworth Kelly

From The Broad Collection: Ellsworth Kelly, Green Blue Red, 1963, oil on canvas, The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection. Throughout the late 1950s and early 60s, Ellsworth Kelly worked with shapes and solid colors deployed flatly across single canvases. Finding inspiration in both nature and art, he was drawn to the oddity of forms and the various conditions that create visual interest in unlikely ways. In this spirit, Green Blue Red abstains from the balance and harmony of traditional painting and reflects an impulse to build a surface of visual tension out of the contrasts of color and shape and the containment of an edge. Kelly’s works of this period depict the jarring difference between colors and the unusual placement of shapes, energizing the visual experience and creating a disorienting optical effect. The green rectangle and blue oval are vibrant and foreign against the red background. Kelly does not construct balance or resolve; he creates compositions that are alive in their idiosyncrasies.

Ellsworth Kelly, Blue Green Red II (1965)

Blue Yellow Red IV - Ellsworth Kelly

Red Blue Green, 1963 - Ellsworth Kelly

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Red Green Blue is almost the title of a 1963 painting by Ellsworth Kelly. Red Blue Green, a monumental rectangular oil work, considered a crucial

Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue

Ellsworth Kelly 'Blue, Green, Red I', Ellsworth Kelly 'Blue…

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Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA, 2003. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 128 pages with 88 illustrations 82 in color. Preface by Hugh M. Davies.

Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue Paintings and Studies, 1958-1965

Blue Red Green Black, ELLSWORTH KELLY New Paintings