Ellsworth Kelly's primary artistic focus is on the highly refined
articulation of shapes and colors. In the painting Red Green Blue
(1964) he presents three discrete, unmodulated fields of vivid, highly
saturated color. While he is perhaps best known for such paintings, he
has also produced a great many sculptures. Works such as his
large-scale, two-part bronze Garden sculpture, Double Curve (1988),
might be described as freestanding equivalents of the simple shapes
seen in his paintings. At first, Double Curve looks two-dimensional.
Yet our sense of its volume, and of the tension between its pair of
arched, 18-foot-tall sections, changes depending on where we stand.
Commissioned for the
Minneapolis Sculpture
Garden, 1988
(gift of
Judy and Kenneth
Dayton 88.380)