Dimensions: support: 1982 x 1767 x 28 mm
Copyright: © Ellsworth Kelly | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Ellsworth Kelly's "Broadway," currently housed at the Tate. It’s striking how Kelly reduces form to such basic shapes and colors; the orange panel really dominates. What's your interpretation? Curator: Well, considering the materials and methods, how was this smoothness achieved? What kind of labor went into this? How does the industrial feel challenge notions of artistic skill and the artist's hand? Editor: That’s a side I hadn't considered. It’s less about the "what" and more about the "how." Curator: Exactly. And the "how" is deeply rooted in the social and economic context of its production and dissemination.
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This painting, one of a series that developed from a small black and white study, is called after the famous avenue in New York. Here the red form can also be read as a 'broad way' receding into the distance, Kelly having cropped the edges of the rectangle to imply perspective. At the same time it appears absolutely flat. Asserting the real, flat nature of painting has been one of Kelly's central concerns. He achieves this here without sacrificing effects of space. The picture plane suggests at once flatness and three dimensions. Other works in the series are titled Wall after New York's Wall Street and 'North River,' another name for New York's Hudson River. Gallery label, September 2004
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