Abstract #318 by Myron Kozman

Abstract #318

1947

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Artwork details

Medium
print
Dimensions
image: 477 x 290 mm paper: 588 x 367 mm
Copyright
National Gallery of Art: CC0 1.0

Tags

#pop art-esque#childish illustration#cartoon like#cartoon based#green and blue tone#print#pop art#teenage art#spray can art#watercolour illustration#cartoon style

About this artwork

Myron Kozman made this abstract print, sometime around the middle of the last century, and I’m immediately drawn to how each color seems to sit just *so*. It's as if he were arranging a handful of translucent, matte-colored sweets on a white surface. You can almost feel the grain of the woodblock he used, like a fossil left in the paint, which I guess is what printmaking kinda is... a fossil of a mark. The way the colors overlap, creating new hues and textures, is a reminder that artmaking is about layering, both physically and conceptually. Take the yellow shape, which bleeds into a rusty red. Together they transform into a new thing entirely. Kozman's work is so visually different from the hard-edged geometry that was popular at the time, but it's interesting to think of this in relation to someone like Miro. Not in a directly referential way, but as part of a wider conversation about what abstraction could be. Ultimately, art is not about answers, but about embracing the beauty of ambiguity.

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