Blocks and stripsMary Lee Bendolph · 2002
2002
248.0 x 218.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
Mary Lee Bendolph (1935 –)
Odkrijte živopisne odeje Mary Lee Bendolph iz Alabame. Njena dela združujejo tradicijo, pripovedovanje in abstrakcično umetnost.
Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, Združene države Amerike)
Odkrijte Souls Grown Deep: proslavljanje črne umetnosti ameriškega jugu. Spoznajte quilts iz Gee's Bend in zgodbe umetnikov.
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
O umetniškem delu
- Naslov: Blocks and strips
- Umetnik: Mary Lee Bendolph
- Leto: 2002
- Prvotne dimenzije: 248.0 x 218.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Status avtorskih pravic: Pod avtorsko zaščito
- Kje je razstavljeno: Souls Grown Deep
- Barvna paleta: Neutrals
- Zaznana svetlobnost: bright
Vprašanja in odgovori
Ali je Mary Lee Bendolph, ustvarjalec dela "Blocks and strips", znan tudi pod drugimi imeni?
Mary Lee Bendolph se pojavlja tudi pod imeni Bendolph.
Kako se v "Blocks and strips" združujeta kontrast in harmonija?
Barvna analiza dela "Blocks and strips" avtorja Mary Lee Bendolph izpostavlja Statement kontrast in Discordant Palette harmonijo.
Katere barve prevladujejo v delu "Blocks and strips" avtorja Mary Lee Bendolph?
Barvna identiteta dela "Blocks and strips" avtorja Mary Lee Bendolph: paleta Neutrals, ki prevladuje z barvo White (#f9f9f9).