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Ilya Bolotowsky"Red/Blue/Black Diamond" Silkscreen Print signed by Ilya Bolotowskyc. 1970
c. 1970
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Ilya Bolotowsky's Red/Blue/Black Diamond from around 1970, immediately shows the deep influence of Piet Mondrian's New-Plasticism. Bolotowsky first saw Mondrian's paintings in the 1930s and adopted a Neo-Plastic style in the late 1940s. This diamond-shaped silkcreen recalls the primary colors and the vertical and horizontal patterns of the Dutch painter. Bolotowsky liked the diamond-shaped format. He has said "That the feeling of space is much greater in a diamond-shaped area than in a square of the same lateral measurement because the vertical and horizontal dimensions are larger in relationship to the whole." The artist has a clean, pure, formal approach to painting; he reduces the work to horizontal lines, primary colors and black and white, and a geometric shape. Set against a white rectangle, the work appears to be suspended or floating. The colors form horizontal and vertical lines that create a pulsating pattern that causes the eye to move about the work. This silkscreen recalls Maurice Denis's declaration that painting is a surface covered with colors, which Klein notes was recruited as a foundational expression of the theory of abstract or non-objective painting. According to the critic Donald Kuspit, "[t]his is what the abstract work of art says: It has no identity other than itself and references no reality beyond its own."
25 3/4" x 35 7/8" art
26" x 36 1/4" framed
Ilya Bolotowsky was a leading early 20th-century painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced cubism and geometric abstraction and was much influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.
Born to Jewish parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, Bolotowsky immigrated to America in 1923 to settle in New York City. He attended the National Academy of Design and became associated with a group called "The Ten," artists, including Louis Schanker, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko and Joseph Solman, who rebelled against the structures of the Academy and held independent exhibitions.
During this period, Bolotowsky came under the influence of the De Stijl painter Piet Mondrian and the tenets of neoplasticism, a movement that advocated the possibility of ideal order in the visual arts. Bolotowsky adopted his mentor's use of horizontal and vertical geometric pattern and a palette restricted to primary colors and neutrals.
In 1936, having turned to geometric abstractions, he was one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists, a cooperative formed to promote the interests of abstract painters and to increase understanding between themselves and the public. The David Barnett Gallery held a show of Bolotowsky's work just a year before the major Guggenheim retrospective of his work.
- Creator:Ilya Bolotowsky (1907-1981, American, Russian)
- Creation Year:c. 1970
- Dimensions:Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 36.25 in (92.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Milwaukee, WI
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Ilya Bolotowsky
Ilya Bolotowsky grew up in Russia and enjoyed drawing, but his family wanted him to do something “socially useful,” so he planned to be a lawyer. He changed his mind after he moved to New York, however, and enrolled at the National Academy of Design. During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration hired him as a mural painter, and he was one of the first artists to create completely abstract designs for the project. He composed geometric images from colored rectangles and squares, inspired by his belief in “ideal harmony and order.” From the late 1940s, Bolotowsky used canvases shaped as diamonds, circles, and ovals to show how the edge of the painting could change the visual effect of the lines and angles within. (Bolotowsky, interviewed by Svendsen and Poser, Ilya Bolotowsky, 1974)
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