Milton Avery Still Lifes
Posted by sarah
 Those of you who share our affection for the work of Milton Avery will be pleased to hear about an upcoming show: Waddington Galleries has announced an exhibition of twenty-six still life paintings by Milton Avery that trace the artists development between 1927 and 1960. Paintings such as White Pitcher (shown here), which Avery painted at various intervals in his career, will be set in the context of the artist's developing style: In the earlier painting, the illusion of three-dimensional space is created by the contrast of light and dark, whereas in the later picture detail has been extracted and recognizable objects condensed into abstract shapes. The background or negative space begins to become part of a shallow picture plane of interconnecting silhouettes. The colours have been tonally heightened and harmonized through the addition of white paint, the flower petals given a lucid delineation by scratching through the pastel tone surface to reveal a dark green ground.
The show will take place October 31 through November 24, 2007. We reviewed Avery's work and life in the June issue of the magazine and had the distinct pleasure of publishing several images the artist created for an illustrated children's book, Paul, which only recently came into light. See some of these delightful paintings at The New York Public Library's website here.
Overheard
10/8/2007 1:25:48 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) 
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