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Oil Painting - Exposed Painting, Paynes Grey, Yellow Oxide on White

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© Callum Innes

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1999Q4
Collection:Fine Art Paintings and Sculpture
Date:1998 - 1998

Maker Information

Artist:Callum Innes - View biography for Callum Innes

Notes

Innes explores the harmonies of colour, form and texture in works that appear entirely abstract but are rooted in the 'real' world of objects and landscapes which inspire them.Here, a band of dense colour was laid across the canvas and then partly washed away with turpentine leaving a transparent veil of paint. Pristine edges contrast with broken, flowing deltas of colour where the wet paint has seeped beneath the masking tapes. The work can be seen as a series of conscious decisions and controlled accidents in which the physical properties of the paint itself is the basis of the work.

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme with funds from the Arts Council Lottery Fund and the Friends of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1999.

Further Information

Production Period:20th century
School/Style:Abstract
Medium:Oil paint on canvas.
Material(s):Canvas

Dimensions

Height:2285 mm
Width:2235 mm