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Between 1959 and 1960 Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) and her partner Gerd Leufert spent a year in the United States. While in Iowa Gego created this three-dimensional work, titled Sphere (1959). The sculpture epitomizes her investigation of “Lineus Paraleles“ (parallel lines). Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Gego, Sphere
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Asger Jorn (1914 – 1973) was a founding member of CoBrA, a European artists coalition active from 1948 to 1951 that emphasized material and its spontaneous application. Even after 1957, when Jorn began participating in the Situationalist International — a group of writers, artists and theorists who sought to destabilize societal practices and structures — he continued to work within the CoBrA aesthetic, as seen in A Soul For Sale (1958 –59). With its expressive brushwork and its collapsing of foreground and background, figuration and abstraction, this painting articulates some of Jorn’s most significant interrogations of the precepts of geometric abstraction.
Photographed in the Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
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In Verner Panton’s Notes on Color, the Danish designer stated:
“In Kindergarten, one learns to love and use colors. Later on, at school and in life, one learns something called taste. For most people, this means limiting their use of colors.”
Continue reading Eye On Design: Verner Panton’s Heart Cone Chair
Joe Elliot, singer for Def Leppard was born on this day, August 1, in 1959. Happy Birthday, Joe!
Simple Minds’ drummer Mel Gaynor was born on this day, May 29th, in 1959! Happy Birthday Mel, you are a bad ass on the kit!
