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Winter Thoughts on a Truitt Summer

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Today’s post comes from Deb Steinberg, class of 2014 and Art Center Docent. Anne Truitt’s Sorcerer’s Summer (1991) is an abstract, modern sculpture that develops a visual intensity through its bold planes of color and precise rectilinear form. From across the gallery, the wooden sculpture appears very simple and solid, characterized by its crisp right angles and vertical, solid blocks of color. Each shade of enchanted red and purple seems to inhabit its own plane, where the colors are so deep and vibrant that they appear to be the material of which the sculpture is built, rather than the wood underneath. But then you step closer, and the bold, stable colors take on a whole new life. They are no longer the solid blocks visible from across the room. Rather, you can see the actual brushstrokes of the paint; how the dark purple overlays a brilliant red and vice versa; how the strokes are not exactly vertical; and how the colors do not even stay in their own planes but enter into the crevice between the shades. It becomes clear that these are not unique shades of color, but that they exist on an infinite spectrum of reds and purples and deep [...]

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