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Arcangelo Ianelli

Overlapping Rectangles, 1980

  • Author:
    Arcangelo Ianelli
  • Bio:
    São Paulo, Brasil, 1922-2009
  • Title:
    Overlapping Rectangles
  • Date:
    1980
  • Medium:
    Acrílico sobre tela
  • Dimensions:
    99 x 79 x 4 cm
  • Credit line:
    Doação do artista, 1980
  • Object type:
    Pintura
  • Inventory number:
    MASP.00795
  • Photography credits:
    João Musa

TEXTS


By Eugênia Gorini Esmeraldo
As the title says, Overlapping Rectangles, these rectangles overlap each other, the darkest surfaces in the background, with brown strips on the margins. The colors penetrate each other and culminate, in the foreground of the canvas, in two dark-beige squares, almost in the center of the composition. Notice that below right there is a dark strip and to the left, another brown strip. It is a concise, calculated, geometric composition – representative of the path taken by the mature artist.

— Eugênia Gorini Esmeraldo, 1998

Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).



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