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Larry Poons Signed Silkscreen, Abstract #1473855

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Larry Poons Signed Silkscreen, Abstract #1473855
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Artist: Larry Poons

Title: untitled 1

Year: 1979

Medium: Silkscreen, Signed in Pencil l.r.

Edition: AP

Size: 42 x 29.5 inches



Born in Tokyo, Japan, Larry Poons became a prominent figure in
Optical Art and in the Color-Field school of painting in New York.
His paintings of the 1960s were characterized by dots of color
placed according to a horizontal vertical and diagonal grid against
a rich colored ground. The effect was a sense of movement--thus
Optical Art. In 1965, he exhibited with the Op Artists, but the
next year, his art became looser with small colored shapes floating
in space. From that time, he changed to expressionism and abstraction.
Poons has also created Earth Art such as his "cracked earth
landscapes". For these he uses layers of heavy impasto to
create the effect of flowing lava and craggy plateaus.
<p>A musician before becoming a painter, Larry Poons studied at
the New England Conservatory of Music from 1955 to 1957, and
was much influenced by the experimental compositions of John
Cage. His interest in abstraction, especially the geometric
forms of Piet Mondrian led him to painting, and in 1959, he
studied ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1979</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:42</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:29.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Larry Poons Signed Silkscreen, Abstract</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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