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...Hendricks uses negative space with the flair of Ellsworth Kelly....
...“He wanted to collect artists ‘of our time’ but not emerging artists,” and carried a list of targets by Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Philip Guston and Frank Stella....
...“Ellsworth wasn’t a collector,” says Jack Shear, his husband, a photographer. “He lived with the furniture.”...
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Ellsworth Kelly....
...She now has outstanding holdings of works by Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and Mark Rothko, James Rosenquist, Joseph Cornell, as well as more contemporary names, including Christo and Rachel Whiteread....
...She has taken pains to distance herself from the choked, self-referential chill of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella who insist their paintings are about nothing but painting....
...The museum visitor is greeted by a simple Ellsworth Kelly sculpture, a kind of white shark’s fin set against the solid steel plane of a wall supporting the roof....
...At their delightful Parisian bistro Ellsworth, Perkins serves up an intelligent €28 three-course lunch menu. And only a fool would try to disagree with Adrian’s wine selection....
...At the opposite extreme lie the disturbing fantasies of bodily dismemberment and social and psychological fragmentation explored by French surrealists and contemporary British artist John Stezaker....
...We had roamed the back alleys together on a quest: to find the place where John Piper, the British artist, sat to paint one of his watercolours of Venice....
...The West Coast has long been home to some of the US’s finest artists — John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Richard Diebenkorn and others — and Los Angeles is now drawing artists from all over the world to its still...
...Below a painting by John Singleton Copley, Ellsworth grouped a 17th-century Japanese porcelain puppy (an incense burner), a 13th-century Chinese figurine, a Japanese snake, and a West-African carved wood...
...This week Fape announced that it has received a donation of $250,000 from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation....
...In 1957, Martin relocated to New York, where she found a loft in the same area as avant-garde painters such as James Rosenquist, Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg....
...“Jasper Johns said yes but come on that day ‘because I won’t be in the studio’....
...Ellsworth’s grieving family took Yahoo to court in an effort to gain access to his emails. The company was ordered to hand over the emails to the family....
...If you’d talked to Cy [Twombly] in old age or Jasper Johns or Ellsworth Kelly they’d say, ‘Of course you have to learn’: it’s about developing articulacy in a medium.”...
...“For years we have speculated that new forms of microbial life could have evolved in the unique habitats of Antarctica’s subglacial lakes,” said John Parnell, professor of geology at the University of Aberdeen...
...The first issue has just appeared, featuring Ellsworth Kelly, Cyprien Gaillard and Sarah Morris. As in the past, it won’t carry advertising, nor have a regular schedule....
...An Ellsworth Kelly display and The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing have been among several thoughtful shows, and have encouraged gifts of an impressive one hundred works on paper from artists and collectors...
...He has a Jasper Johns 1962 “Diver” and a 1951-52 Rothko as well as works by Warhol, David Smith, Miró and Ellsworth Kelly....
...A contemporary of Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly, Katz came of age in the late 1950s and with stubborn daring diverted the heroic legacy of Pollock and Newman into almost-taboo figuration....
...Rather these works, at first sight at least, call to mind the canvases of post-painterly abstractionists such as Jasper Johns, Kenneth Noland and Ellsworth Kelly....
...I have sat over on that couch” – he gestures at a couch across the room – “with [artist] John Currin and he’ll say, ‘What are you doing?’...
...The cache of works brims with unlikely insights and startling juxtapositions: for instance, the side-by-side pairing of Ellsworth Kelly’s “Lake” with Cézanne’s “Gulf of Marseille Seen from L’Estaque”....
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