Rotating Performance by Kenneth Nack

Rotating Performance by Kenneth Nack

Rotating Performance

Kenneth Nack

Title

Rotating Performance

 
Artist

Kenneth Nack

  1923 - 2009 (biography)
Year
1951  
Technique
mixed media on panel 
Image Size
15 1/4 x 20 7/8" image and panel size 
Signature
signed, lower left 
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique 
Annotations
dated, lower left; title and artist's name written on exhibition label, verso 
Reference
 
Paper
masonite panel 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
CF106 
Price
SOLD
Description

Kenneth Nack, who studied in Paris with Fernand Leger in 1950, the year he was featured in LIFE magazine as one of the nineteen best young American painters described his work: "This painting assembles the visual tones and color senses that echo the flow of energy beween the worlds of ancient reality and the worlds of contemporary change."

Nack was influenced by Klee, Kandinsky, Miro and the Surrealists, who drew on ancient civilizations, as well as 16th century music notes and cave paintings. This 1951 early Surrealist painting combines intricate painting and drawing done with many layers of glazes and using ground marble and glue, achieving depth with the feeling of collage. The result is a complicated and intriguing work of art that presents the viewer with a composition of fresh color and linear movement. A visual mystery that is never fully solved.