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Accession Number
2015/2.95

Title
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Artist(s)
Mark Schlesinger

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1990

Medium & Support
oil on linen

Dimensions
25 in x 48 in (63.5 cm x 121.92 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Leonard Rosenberg

Subject matter
Though 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 Description
This painting has a curved brown shape crossing the lower right corner on a tan background.

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Primary Object Type
abstract

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
abstraction
form (composition concepts)
geometric shape

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