Accession Number2015/2.95
TitleAs
Artist(s)Mark SchlesingerArtist NationalityAmerican (North American)Object Creation Date1990Medium & Supportoil on linenDimensions 25 in x 48 in (63.5 cm x 121.92 cm)
Credit LineGift of Leonard RosenbergSubject matterThough he was a successful New York-based artist starting in the 1970s, Schlesinger's career took off in the 1990s alongside contemporaries like Rodney Alan Greenblatt and Mark Kostabi. In the 1980s, he began teaching art at a high school in Manhattan, and this sparked a resurgence in his painting creativity. The paintings, such as this one, feature geometric forms that seem to flow across the canvas, having a natural movement onto themselves. Schlesinger revamps old modernist tropes in order to create more cheerful abstract compositions.
Physical DescriptionThis painting has a curved brown shape crossing the lower right corner on a tan background.
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Keywords
abstraction
form (composition concepts)
geometric shape