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Ellsworth Kelly

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Ellsworth Kelly (1923 - 2015) was active/lived in New York / France.  Ellsworth Kelly is known for Minimalist painting and sculpture.

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 Minimalist painter and sculptor, Ellsworth Kelly explains, "By removing the content from my work I shifted the visual reality of painting to include the space around it." Kelly was born May 31, 1923 in Newburgh, New York.  He studied at Pratt Institute* Brooklyn, from 1941 to 1943.  After military service from 1943 to 1945, he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1946 to 1947.

Kelly studied art in Paris from 1948 to 1954, when post-war Paris was the home of European Abstraction and the avant-garde*.  He enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts* in Paris under the G.I. Bill, although he attended classes infrequently.  In France, he discovered Romanesque* art and architecture and Byzantine art. He was also introduced to Surrealism* and Neo-Plasticism*, which led him to experiment with automatic drawing and geometric abstraction*.

In 1950, Kelly met Jean Arp and that same year began to make shaped-wood reliefs and colla   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3898 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Ellsworth Kelly available:    Jasper Johns,  Claes Thure Oldenburg,  Frank Stella,  Roy Lichtenstein,  Helen Frankenthaler,  Robert Burns Motherwell,  Donald Clarence Judd,  Alex Katz,  Philip Guston,  James Rosenquist,  Robert E Indiana,  Richard Diebenkorn,  Ed Ruscha,  Wayne Thiebaud,  Joan Mitchell,  Morris Louis,  Jim Dine,  Robert Rauschenberg,  Richard Serra,  Willem de Kooning,  Brice Marden,  Adolph Gottlieb,  Josef Albers,  Tom Wesselmann



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Ellsworth Kelly


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked After 1900
Art School
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
  • Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
  • Public Art in Washington DC
  • U.S. Embassy, Art in Embassies Program, Foundation
Added Description
  • Botany Specialty
  • Camouflage Artist
  • Mural Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
Artist Colony
  • Coenties Slip Art Group
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Museum
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Special Group
  • Post Painterly Abstraction, 1964, Clement Greenberg

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