Description
| Product ID: | 9783777439297 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Great Masters of Art |
| Title: | Agnes Pelton |
| Authors: | Author: Gilbert Vicario |
| Page Count: | 72 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Paintings and painting, Individual artists, art monographs, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The spiritually inspired pictures of Agnes Pelton (1881–1961) have their roots in the desert of California, a place where the artist settled in 1932 and where she lived until her death. She wrote of her highly symbolic paintings that her pictures were “like little windowsâ€, which opened up a view into the interior, her “message of light to the worldâ€. In the 1920s Agnes Pelton started to explore abstract painting, because this offered her the possibility of translating esoteric topics into pictures as well as interpreting earth and light in a spiritual way. Like her fellow-artist Georgia O’Keeffe, Pelton deliberately turned her back on the art scene of the East Coast. She was celebrated for her abstract compositions: “… it is simply an oasis of beauty for the eyeâ€, was how American Art News eulogised her work. After her death Pelton’s work disappeared from the public focus for a long time; today her important artistic contribution to American modernism is acknowledged once more. |
| Imprint Name: | Hirmer Verlag |
| Publisher Name: | Hirmer Verlag |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-12-15 |
