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Yellow, Blue and Violet
Michael Kidner1963
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom
For Kidner the canvas remained “a sort of laboratory”, the emphasis placed on colour over line. In this painting there is a strong sense of movement as the vibrant colours vie for space and the horizontal bands become increasingly segmented as they reach the centre. What begins as quite flat at the bottom of the canvas expands and becomes fluent as the strips of colour move to the right towards the top.
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Details
- Title: Yellow, Blue and Violet
- Creator: Michael Kidner
- Creator Lifespan: 1917/2009
- Creator Nationality: British
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: London, England
- Creator Birth Place: Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
- Date Created: 1963
- tag / style: Michael Kidner; Op art; abstract; colour; Harry Thubron; yellow; blue; violet
- Physical Dimensions: w1520 x h1670 cm (Without frame)
- Artist biographical information: Kidner was over 30 before he thought seriously of making a career as a painter. After five years in the Canadian army he enrolled at Goldsmiths’ College, but left because he disliked the teaching methods. He worked as a theatre designer in the early 1950s before starting to paint full-time in 1953. He was influenced by the American abstract expressionist painters, and, in his use of colour, by the pioneering constructivist and educationalist, Harry Thubron.
- Additional artwork information: To zoom into this painting follow the link below; http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/zoomify/zoomifydisplay.aspx?ID=2&ArtworkID=220
- Type: Oil on canvas
- Rights: Purchased in 1963
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