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Martin CaninBlack, White, Silver1980s
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This untitled painting by Martin Canin's is an historic, large, 24 x 57 color-field oil painting, dating ca.1980. Color is freed from objective context and becomes the subject in itself. This piece belongs to a body of work in which Canin experimented with different polygons shaping the physical stretcher itself. This creates illusory spaces that give the painting the tridimensionality of a sculpture. This piece is one of the rare among Canin's works where he stepped away from vibrant bright colors to experiment with dark tones. The austere play of black and gray polygonal shapes infer a particular elegance to the piece. Though at first it would be easy to assimilate Canin's paintings to the work of color field artists like Barnett Newman or Jack Bush, Canin’s large oil paint canvases maintain a distinctive lyrical aspect that separate them from pure geometry and plunge them into a subtle psychological realm.
Canin states, "My work has gone through many changes in the more than forty years that I have been painting. Manet’s statement still resonates for me: To be concise in art is both necessary and elegant. Luminosity is still the goal, oil paint on canvas still the preferred medium, shape and color still the plastic means to speak my particular expression."
Born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1927, Martin Canin is firmly rooted in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. He received his major art training at Syracuse University, where he was awarded the B.F.A. in 1951. In 1959 he went to Tokyo, Japan, where he had his first one-man show in 1960. At the end of the 60s he started teaching at the Parsons School of Design.
His work is part of the Tate Gallery and the Yale University Art Gallery's permanent collection, and it has been exhibited in Europe, Japan and the United States, including several one-man shows at the historic Graham Gallery at 1014 Madison Avenue, NY.
Related Keywords: Color Field Painting, Geometric Painting, Black and White, Polygon
- Creator:Martin Canin (1927, American)
- Creation Year:1980s
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 57 in (144.78 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
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