Walter Quirt’s Art 1961 ‑1962
Color reentered Quirt's work as a major design factor in 1961. He finished forty‑four monumental paintings in a two year period for an exhibition at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 6‑July 18, 1962. Intense color was confidently and spontaneously applied to images of horses, first in Tinkers Dam 1961, Pegasus Without Wings 1962, and Yonder Blue 1962. In contrast to these strongly defined horses were paintings, such as Poise 1962, in which the brushstrokes resembled delicate, oriental calligraphy.
New imagery was introduced into a series of canvases that used either the raw canvas or the white of gessoed canvas as background spaces. Quiet groups of two or three figures were created with slashing strokes of paint and defined with black or toned colors, as in Excitement 1962, and Dusk at Dawn 1961.
Quirt often returned to work on small canvases after he had completed several large ones. He felt that he gained new insights into design and color when he changed the scale. The Prophet 1962, was one result of this technical exercise.
From this period is also the series 'Use of White.'
Color reentered Quirt's work as a major design factor in 1961. He finished forty‑four monumental paintings in a two year period for an exhibition at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 6‑July 18, 1962. Intense color was confidently and spontaneously applied to images of horses, first in Tinkers Dam 1961, Pegasus Without Wings 1962, and Yonder Blue 1962. In contrast to these strongly defined horses were paintings, such as Poise 1962, in which the brushstrokes resembled delicate, oriental calligraphy.
New imagery was introduced into a series of canvases that used either the raw canvas or the white of gessoed canvas as background spaces. Quiet groups of two or three figures were created with slashing strokes of paint and defined with black or toned colors, as in Excitement 1962, and Dusk at Dawn 1961.
Quirt often returned to work on small canvases after he had completed several large ones. He felt that he gained new insights into design and color when he changed the scale. The Prophet 1962, was one result of this technical exercise.
From this period is also the series 'Use of White.'
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