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Artist

Jack Tworkov (Primary)

Title

Q1-75 #5

Date

1975

Century

20th century

Medium & Support

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Canvas: 72 x 72 in.

Object Type

Paintings

Credit Line

Black Mountain College Collection, gift of the Estate of Jack Tworkov

Accession Number

2015.45.01

Copyright

In Copyright
© Estate of Jack Tworkov / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

ON VIEW

In a calculated break from his gestural roots as a forerunner of Abstract Expressionism in America, Tworkov turned to the simple geometry of the rectangle to bring about a new system of composition. “Geometrics,” Tworkov wrote, “or any other systematic order gives me a space for meditation.” In Q1-75 #5, Tworkov first applied large swathes of primary colors. The ground, as the artist described in his journal, was like the start of a painting from the 1950s. Just how the loose underpainting would affect a real change in the final painting was what Tworkov was curious to find out. The end result features a rhythmic and repetitive mark within an open field delineated by a geometric lattice, which is based on the combined measured variation of a square and a triangle.

Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: Jason Andrew

• Intersections in American Art , 9/11/2019 - 00/00/00

• geometric abstraction