Alex Colville: Paintings, Prints, and Processes, 1983-1994Thoroughly documenting the body of work created over the past decade by renowned Canadian realist Colville (b. 1920), this catalogue provides excellent full-page reproductions of 23 paintings and ten serigraphs along with illustrations of nearly 350 related preparatory drawings. Lengthy individual analyses of the painstaking composition of the featured images and their simultaneously mundane and evocative narrative content are augmented by detailed examinations of two paintings created by Colville in 1964 and 1981 and by a discussion of the central role of drawing in his working process. |
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... golden rectangles are formed something like the wings of a triptych . If these vertical golden rectangles are subsequently subdivided with their horizontal and vertical medians , each yields four more small golden rect- angles . Drawing ...
... golden rectangles are formed something like the wings of a triptych . If these vertical golden rectangles are subsequently subdivided with their horizontal and vertical medians , each yields four more small golden rect- angles . Drawing ...
Page 32
... golden rectangles , from left to right the bands produce a rhythm of 3–3–2 – median - 2-3-3 . From this symmetrical sequence , a square can be produced ( 3-2 - median - 2-3 or 5 - median - 5 , because 10 is the proportional value of the ...
... golden rectangles , from left to right the bands produce a rhythm of 3–3–2 – median - 2-3-3 . From this symmetrical sequence , a square can be produced ( 3-2 - median - 2-3 or 5 - median - 5 , because 10 is the proportional value of the ...
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... rectangle composed of two horizontal golden rectangles placed one upon the other . The sail's peak touches the picture's upper framing edge at dead centre ; if a line is dropped from this point to bisect the pic- ture's surface , it ...
... rectangle composed of two horizontal golden rectangles placed one upon the other . The sail's peak touches the picture's upper framing edge at dead centre ; if a line is dropped from this point to bisect the pic- ture's surface , it ...
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21.6 cm Collection Acadia University acrylic on white Acrylic polymer emulsion Alex Colville Artist and Blue bird black ink blue ink Blue Jay body canoe centre Chaplain colour Colville's Couple on Bridge Cyclist and Crow dated diagonal distance diving board dog's Drabinsky Gallery Drascombe drawings emulsion on Masonite eye level FÊTE CHAMPÊTRE Fibonacci series figures foreground format framing edge French Cross front gaze geometric golden rectangles golden sections graphite on white grey grey-green paper head horizontal median Ink and acrylic ink and graphite ink on grey-green ink on white inscribed KÖLN EXPRESS light located middle ground Modulor Mount Allison University Mylar overlay November orange ink painting pattern photocopy on white pictorial space picture plane picture's Polaroid position RAVEN Raw sienna ink scene Serigraph shape sienna and black sketches square stands surface taxi tion Toronto vanishing point vertical median viewer visual wash on white