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Fifty Paintings - by Anthony Ames (Hardcover)

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  • This volume presents fifty paintings (1985-2020) with brief references for each.
  • Author(s): Anthony Ames
  • 127 Pages
  • Art, Subjects & Themes

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This book illustrates fifty paintings (1986-2018) with a brief reference on each. The paintings inform or are informed by architectural works by the architect and others. The paintings in this book depict 'object-type' - general yet specific, generic yet designed, familiar yet estranged. They are 'Purist' forms depicted in a still life landscape. The compositions employ overlap, convergence and diminution to imply depth resulting in the creation of the illusion of perspectival space. However, through the use of juxtaposition, superimposition and ambiguity of scale the perspectival effect is impaired. The result is a blurring of distinction between foreground and background that encourages a reading of pattern that reinforces the presence of the surface plane. A conflict is encouraged between the deep space and the shallow space - between the creation of implied space through perspective and the reinforcement of the surface plane through pattern. A multiple reading is fostered that rewards the careful observer.



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This volume presents fifty paintings (1985-2020) with brief references for each. The paintings--executed in acrylic latex paint on two inch deep wooden panels--refer to or are informed by a particular way of looking at architecture. They are abstract in nature, and representative in subject matter. They propose an ambiguous reading of deep and shallow space--always frontal--in a world reinforced by a vocabulary based on a purist leitmotif and organized in a syntax of superimposed, juxtaposed, and spatially obscure centers, edges, grids, and alignments. The paintings have been exhibited sporadically at selected venues including The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, The Biennale Architettura in Venice, Italy and at Le Corbusier's enigmatic and beautiful Casa Curutchet in LA Plata, Argentina. They are presented here with an insightful introduction by Andrea Simitch and a timeless foreword by Dean Almy.
Dimensions (Overall): 10.24 Inches (H) x 10.39 Inches (W) x .79 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.43 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 127
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: Subjects & Themes
Publisher: Oro Editions
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Anthony Ames
Language: English
Street Date: September 15, 2021
TCIN: 1006745141
UPC: 9781943532131
Item Number (DPCI): 247-15-2101
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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