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| Untitled (Relational Painting) |
The second new work, Untitled (Relational Painting), by Ilya Bolotowsky, is a non-objective painting which shows the
artist's skill in using primary colors and the grid motif.
Born in Russia,
Bolotowsky (1907-1983) was influenced by the Russian constructivists, by Mondrian, and by the
Dutch de Stijl school. When he came to
the United States in the 1930s, he took Mondrian's color and space and
developed them further in rhymes and complicated patterns. Our painting
is pure design, typical of experiments into what came to be known as
"neo-plasticism," an attempt to reduce art to its purest essentials
and to show that formal elements can create movement and vitality. To
quote curator Patti Junker, "Color and tone project space and spatial
relationships, lines suggest direction and rhythm, the shape of the canvas
suggests a design motif in and of itself."
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