Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kellywas an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing simplicity of form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth31 May 1923
CountryUnited States of America
morning wall light
I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.
drawing trying copying
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.
drawing half hours
My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.
sculpture woods painting
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
art joy want
Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.
drawing
All my work begins with drawings.
drawing lines want
I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.
color drawing done
All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.
strong color two
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.
rocks shadow texture
I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.
photography mean giving
Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.
art painting window
I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.
glasses broken anything-goes
Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.
beautiful men artist
I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.