Tuesday 28 August 2012

Jean-Paul Riopelle, Untitled, 1953


From the National Gallery of Canada: Inspired by his admiration for Claude Monet’s waterlily paintings, Riopelle, by spray painting the colours, captures the water’s properties of transparency and infinite depth as well as its shimmering surface. India ink, applied in daubs and dripping lines, replicates the effect of the waterlilies which float on the surface and whose tendrils penetrate the liquid colour. This drawing is an important new direction in the artist’s work which will lead him to his masterworks such as “Pavane” 1954.

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