Helen
Lundeberg Painting I Los Angeles Art Association/Tobey C. Moss Gallery These arches and lines figure out colors on their own. The
old lady of the Los Angeles Art Association was a figure to be contended
with, sitting on the modest wall of the Leo S. Bing Theater in alabaster and
orange etched plainly on fine paper, or dissecting space at the Municipal Art
Gallery in oils of color bands. Her Ardmore home is now a complex. |
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She sees
it as a set of formal problems to be raised and articulated, thusly. So you
get a limited range of formal orders in a given stance: a simple contrast,
planar volutes, color modulation, voilą. A Road, a Sunny
Corridor, Waterways... |
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For
proof she sets herself to Lorser Feitelson's problem of formality itself, the
knife-edge of reality vs. potentiality. It's there, in simple permutations,
overcoming the formal problems by graduated reduction, counting down on one's
fingers from the nascences of structure to the vanishments of nature. |