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Thelma Appel Landscape Painting on Canvas 1973 #1473985

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Thelma Appel Landscape Painting on Canvas 1973 #1473985
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Artist: Thelma Appel

Title: Nightfall

Year: 1973

Medium: Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

Size: 36.5" x 87.5"





Ms. Thelma Appel is a young painter whose work clearly represents a natural development and extension of the artistic thinking of the immediate past.



The central subject in her work is landscape. Landscape painting, and in fact most painting, has historically been treated as foreground, middleground and background. Ms. Appel's paintings, however, destroy the illusion of space. Instead, her filaments and shapes float on the surface of the canvass in a charming network of gauzy intricacies.



The various ideas about how to represent three dimensional form on a two dimensional picture plane have preoccupied artists since the Renaissance. Modern painting especially has explored and redefined the representation of value in space. No sooner was one pictorial mode explored than it was challenged. Most recently the idea of foreground and background in painting was entirely destroyed by a group of painters known as minimalists. The canvasses of these painters are usually severe and the shapes geometric. In many paintings the play between foreground and background is shattered, reduced to one plane only.



Ms. Appel's easy un-selfconscious works seem to have little relationship to this school of painting, however, they are a logical development of the thinking of the minimalists. The fragmentation of poorly defined shapes ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1973</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:36.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:87.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Thelma Appel Landscape Painting on Canvas 1973</td></tr>



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