Framed (thin wooden strip, no glass). 31.75" x 41". Oil on canvas. Mom dabbled in abstraction in the late '60s. It was, of course, the style. She did a few excellent pieces, this amongst them, but actually found the style quite constraining. She had to do much more planning for these paintings, with preliminary sketches and lots of prep work before starting. This one, of course, demanded ruthless discipline for all those straight lines. (And ruthless discipline was not, we all know, one of Joanlee's strengths.) Somewhere amongst the weeks it took to paint this, she actually forgot to do one line. She didn't notice it until years later. After which she made it a bit of a party game for visitors to the house. Could they find the missing line?
Saturday 19 February 2011
The Missing Line
Framed (thin wooden strip, no glass). 31.75" x 41". Oil on canvas. Mom dabbled in abstraction in the late '60s. It was, of course, the style. She did a few excellent pieces, this amongst them, but actually found the style quite constraining. She had to do much more planning for these paintings, with preliminary sketches and lots of prep work before starting. This one, of course, demanded ruthless discipline for all those straight lines. (And ruthless discipline was not, we all know, one of Joanlee's strengths.) Somewhere amongst the weeks it took to paint this, she actually forgot to do one line. She didn't notice it until years later. After which she made it a bit of a party game for visitors to the house. Could they find the missing line?
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