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Object Record
Images
Metadata
Item ID# |
A2020.084.001 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Title |
Colour Lock #7 |
Date |
1977 |
Description |
A gouache on paper painting depicting squares. The squares are in lines with seven columns and six rows. The far left column is six burgundy squares. The next two columns have the first three squares painted teal and bottom three squares painted brown. The centre column has six orange squares. The next two columns have the first three squares painted red-orange and the bottom three squares painted purple. The last column has six blue squares. There are faint pencil marks from the layout of the painting still visible. |
Artist |
Caruso, Barbara |
Provenance |
The painting was created by Barbara Caruso. It was part of her Colour Lock, Vertical Series. The 22 paintings in this series were created between 1976 to 1978. 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. Statement by the Artist for the Erindale Campus Art Gallery, University of Toronto. "My paintings are about colour. The title, Colour Lock, refers to the interaction of colour in them. Each colour exerts an energy that excites the eye and mind. This is the nature of colour. Combining colours creates new energies; combinations of energies create a new colour experience and open new perceptions. In Colour Lock, Vertical Series colour is in composition with shape and direction. The colour is intense, the most active element in this work. Its activity ranges through like and opposing contrasts. Shape, or colour-shape (for colour cannot be conceived and made visible without shape) is orderly. The square-like shape occurs frequently. Where rectangles occur, I regard them as extensions or contractions of the square, i.e. the square is extended to the left or right, or upward, or it is contracted by energy from above or below. A dominant shape common to each work is the vertical rectangle that extends from edge to edge, a pillar of colour, shape and direction. The vertical colour-shape is central in the earlier paintings and is multiplied in the later ones in the series. It behaves both as a highly active shape in contract to other shapes, and as a static element due to its extension of a single colour. The other shapes have less direction, are less active, but their individual colours, sizes and positions increase their activity. Thus, the more directed shape is less active and the less directed shapes become more active; this is an anomaly. Contour and direction are always horizontal and vertical. The oblique or diagonal is involved as the route along which the eye travels the painting. This diagonal movement is invited by the colour as the eye seeks satisfying colour relationships, analoguous or contrasting colour pairs, then pairs of pairs. My work is a search for a language of colour the paintings are a statement of colour and its energy; each painting is a colour narrative. This series brings direction, as an element, into concert with colour and shape." 20/1/83 |
Dimensions |
H-38 W-43 inches |
Search Terms & Subjects |
Art |
Places |
Kincardine |
People |
Caruso, Barbara Ann |