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Object Record
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Metadata
Item ID# |
A2020.084.004 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Title |
Red, Green and White |
Date |
11/08/1985 |
Description |
An acrylic on board painting depicting four squares on a dark green background. The off-white square in the top right corner is flush with the edges of the painting. The red square on the top left has edges that are perpendicular to the edges of the painting. The dark red square in the bottom left corner is on an angle, with one corner touching the bottom edge of the painting. The light red square's edges run perpendicular to the edges of the painting and the right side of the square touches the edge of the painting. There is a thin white border that goes from the off-white square, along the edges of the painting to the top of the light red square. The painting was done on masonite which was then glued to the wooden frame. The sides of the wooden frame are painted/stained brown. At the back, on the top portion of the frame is written "TOP" in pencil. The back on the masonite is marked with a chalk arrow pointing up and a "3" written sideways in marker. On the inside of the frame is a "3" written in marker. On the top of the bottom brace is written "B. CARUSO 1985"; "RED, GREEN AND WHITE 8/11/85". |
Artist |
Caruso, Barbara |
Provenance |
The painting was created by Barbara Caruso. Barbara Caruso was born in Kincardine. Her parents Tom and Rose owned the Kincardine Fruit Market on Main Street from the 1930s to 1972. She attended St. Anthony's School in Kincardine. She spent part of her childhood in wheelchair due to childhood illness/arthritis. She married Nelson Ball in 1965. They lived and worked in Toronto until 1985 when they moved to Paris, ON. She died of cancer on December 30, 2009. From the artist: "Size is an element in painting. Until 1984, my paintings were large; these new works are small. In them, I explore the dimension of smallness, that particular of size, and I explore the painting as object and as surface. The surface us paint; the paint is colour. Colour, its interaction and its interdependence, is the subject and the mean of these works. Red, yellow, blue, black, white and grey, I will call a primary and primal colour-grammar. Red, red toward blue, and red toward yellow; yellow, yellow toward red, and yellow toward blue; blue, blue toward yellow, and blue toward red - a vocabulary of colour nuance. 'Black' is primal, always made of red, yellow and blue. White is always a colour-white which contrasts in its whiteness and interacts by its hue. Grey is primal black and white together. All is red, yellow and blue. The plane surface, mounted, is advanced from the wall. The panel on its mount, the white ground on the panel, the paint on the white ground - everything is visible, nothing concealed. The painting is objectiveness and it is objectlessness. The 'non-objectivity' presents the nature and order of colour and, by it, nature (physics) is addressed. Colour-shapes configure and reveal a necessity. Primary and primal realities unfold. No theory has been adhered to, no system imposed. If 'system' is seen to evolve, it is the inherent necessity of matter and vision. Generality becomes the particular; the particular, universal. Colour, as matter and light, declares its will to the willing viewer. My art is visual, a perceptual realism of matter, of light, of dimension, of time - the phenomenon of colour" Barbara Caruso, July 1986 to accompany her exhibit Small Paintings at The Manning Gallery, Toronto. November 1- December 4, 1986. |
Dimensions |
H-23 W-23 D-4.5 inches |
Search Terms & Subjects |
Art |
Places |
Kincardine |
People |
Caruso, Barbara Ann |