Blocks and stripsMary Lee Bendolph · 2002
2002
248.0 x 218.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
Mary Lee Bendolph (1935 –)
Oplev Mary Lee Bendolphs livlige quilts fra Alabama. Hendes værker forener tradition, historiefortælling og abstrakt kunst med genbrugt stof.
Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, USA)
Udforsk Souls Grown Deep: En hyldest til sort kunst fra det amerikanske syd! Oplev Gee's Bend-quilte, assemblage-kunst og inspirerende historier fra kunstnere som Thornton Dial & Lonnie Holley.
One of the best known and most revered quiltmakers, Mary Lee Bendolph has spent many decades transforming scraps of old cloth into aesthetic marvels. To create her quilts, she tears worn and discarded clothing into simple strips and blocks of fabric, then assembles them into highly refined geometric abstractions. Her genius resides in her ability to invent a seemingly endless variety of complex compositions and astounding visual effects from a rudimentary vocabulary of shapes. Within this work, somber rectangles of brown wool and blue denim engage in a cubist struggle to subdue a rowdy assortment of brightly colored strips and squares.In the most basic sense, Bendolph’s geometric imagery is an ingenious elaboration on the common practice of strip quilting, a fundamental technique of piecing together bands of cloth that is widespread throughout the South and in many other patchwork traditions. Her gridlike forms also seem to play off the structural framework of the “Housetop
Om dette kunstværk
- Titel: Blocks and strips
- Kunstner: Mary Lee Bendolph
- År: 2002
- Oprindelige mål: 248.0 x 218.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Ophavsretlig status: Ophavsretligt beskyttet
- Udstillet hos: Souls Grown Deep
- Farvepalette: Neutrals
- Oplevet lysstyrke: bright
Spørgsmål og svar
Er Mary Lee Bendolph, skaberen af "Blocks and strips", kendt under andre navne?
Mary Lee Bendolph optræder under de alternative navne Bendolph.
Hvordan forenes kontrast og harmoni i "Blocks and strips"?
Farveanalysen af "Blocks and strips" af Mary Lee Bendolph viser en Statement kontrast og en Discordant Palette harmoni.
Hvilke farver dominerer "Blocks and strips" af Mary Lee Bendolph?
Farveidentiteten i "Blocks and strips" af Mary Lee Bendolph: en Neutrals palet, domineret af White (#f9f9f9).