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Milly RistvedtAfter Wordsworth - modern, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas1977
1977
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This colourful abstract painting is by Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt.
For more than sixty years, Milly Ristvedt’s artwork has been grounded in an exploration of colour and expressive form as a powerful way to convey emotion –to tell a story. Ristvedt has attained an international reputation as a masterful artist known for her colour field paintings. In this lyrical piece, one of her earlier paintings, brushstrokes in teal blue, deep pink, cranberry, and turquoise dance across the canvas. Fine gestural lines in orange, and yellow float against the white backdrop adding dynamic movement throughout the painting.
“The influence of abstract expressionism, colour field and minimalism is evident in the earliest paintings. This gave way in the mid-seventies to an intuitive, spontaneous, and visceral way of working that more directly engaged with my life in the world – relationship to the land, the forces of nature, and a broader and deeper expression of thought and emotion. In the eighties, these works gradually shifted into more cerebral and minimalist explorations of colour and gestural form.” Milly Ristvedt
“The grids that contain her colour feel less like straightjackets and more like the elegant discipline of a haiku poem or a villanelle. But even these comparisons fail. As Milly says, the very nature of her art is to resist words. Her work instead is an expression of intuition, a struggle to understand without conscious reasoning.” Merilyn Simonds, Canadian Author
Milly Ristvedt was born in British Columbia and studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University). Her first solo exhibit was at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto.
Her work has been included in many publications, She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2004 and honored with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. She has won seven Canada Council awards and two Ontario Arts Council awards and had over 50 solo exhibitions and been part of countless group shows. Ristvedt's work can be found in major public collections throughout North America including the National Gallery of Canada.
Milly Ristvedt is represented exclusively by the Oeno Gallery.
- Creator:Milly Ristvedt (1942, Canadian)
- Creation Year:1977
- Dimensions:Height: 63 in (160.02 cm)Width: 84 in (213.36 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Bloomfield, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU29115710462
Milly Ristvedt
Milly Ristvedt, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964, after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art.
In Toronto, during the 1960s and 1970s, Ristvedt was making and exhibiting large-scale paintings alongside a small but defined group of non-figurative painters who, like Ristvedt, had planted roots in modernism. These roots continue to run deep for Ristvedt, who completed her MA in Art History at Queen's University in 2011 with a thesis that explored color in the grid of contemporary painting.
Ristvedt's paintings are part of private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has had over 50 solo exhibitions. In 2012, Ristvedt received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for her service as an advocate for artists.
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