Space Frame C
Maker and role
Artist: Edna Andrade, American, 1917-2008
Year
1965
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
50 x 50in (127 x 127cm)
Credit line
Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters through the Childe Hassam fund
Accession number
1968.13
Object type
Department
Location
Further information
"Nature generates her rich variety of forms. She teaches me geometry and I borrow shapes and colors, symmetries, rhythms, and ratios from her."
—Edna Andrade
Edna Andrade’s hypnotic painting Space Frame C is a dizzying yet ordered arrangement of interlocking geometric forms, executed in a simple color palette. Andrade, an early leader of the Op Art movement of the 1960s, used patterns and color to create optical illusions and challenge perception. Op Art used dynamic compositions that gave the impression of movement through bright, vibrating patterns or varied, warping forms.
—Edna Andrade
Edna Andrade’s hypnotic painting Space Frame C is a dizzying yet ordered arrangement of interlocking geometric forms, executed in a simple color palette. Andrade, an early leader of the Op Art movement of the 1960s, used patterns and color to create optical illusions and challenge perception. Op Art used dynamic compositions that gave the impression of movement through bright, vibrating patterns or varied, warping forms.
Copyright
© Estate of Edna Andrade
Documentation
New Accessions USA; 1970; cat. 17
Edna Andrade; Debra Bricker Balken; 2015; no. 17
Edna Andrade; Debra Bricker Balken; 2015; no. 17
Signature & date
Monogram (EA), l.l
EDNA ANDRADE on top center tacking edge
"SPACE FRAME C/
UP/OIL PAINTING" top center tacking edge
"Varnished, Feb. 1967 - Rembrandt Picture Varnish" left tacking edge
EDNA ANDRADE on top center tacking edge
"SPACE FRAME C/
UP/OIL PAINTING" top center tacking edge
"Varnished, Feb. 1967 - Rembrandt Picture Varnish" left tacking edge
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