Ado Lill
Untitled 77
| Artist: | Ado Lill (1932 - ) |
| Title: | Untitled 77 |
| Date: | 1997 |
| Technique: Material: |
acrylic, gesso, plaster, PVA glue, shellac, charcoal canvas |
| Height (cm): | 180.2 |
| Width (cm): | 195.0 |
| Description: | In discussions over Ado Lill's paintings phrases such as pure art and the painter par excellence usually arise. Abstract expressionism is not a phase in Lill's artwork, an experiment or a sideline. Since the second half of the 1960s he has been consistently working on endless variations of the same idea and form, that involves pure monochrome canvases and geometrical combinations and expressive impasto surfaces and hedonistic colour-combinations. “From the beginning Ado has been fond of the large format, characteristic of abstract expressionists, that makes the colouring, sharp in itself, appear even more intense. When it comes to paintings, Lill is not so much interested in construction of a space as in construction of an intrigue born out of the relationship between colours that could be called rhythm."* Among Ado Lill's works from the 1990s, “Untitled 32" represents the so-called ‘all over style' of painting, where the entire picture surface is covered with an even, rhythmic pattern of colours. “Untitled 77" is more expressive, flowing and sensual; the impasto mass spreading on the edges of the painting appears to blend in with the imaginary whole outside the frame. Anu Allas * Harry Liivrand, Ado Lill, Painter. Exhibition catalog. Art Museum of Estonia, 1994, p. 3. |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 7063 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 47692 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF File size: 43.04MB Resolution: 3798*3960px @ 300dpi |
