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Ellsworth KellyAmerican Artist · 1923–2015
All works by this person →> I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract. > > --Ellsworth Kelly > > Throughout his long career, Ellsworth Kelly's central point of departure has been the forms and patterns found in nature and the world around him. One of America's most prominent abstract artists, but unlike many of his peers, Kelly cannot be identified with a
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- 1988
- Medium
- Copper
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Sculpture
- Institution
- Getty Museum
This thin, slightly curving bronze rises to a height of more than twelve feet. At its tip and bottom, the piece is flat. A matte-black patina provides a smooth and neutral surface that emphasizes the form's sharp silhouette. In sunlight, the sculpture casts its own double--a dramatic and attenuated shadow. In the early 1970s, Ellsworth Kelly began creating totem-like sculptures in a variety of materials including wood, aluminum, and weathering steel. This work is one of a handful of "totems" Kelly executed in bronze. The artist used a source from antiquity--the rigid, upright statues of young men known as *kouroi* .
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