Ellsworth Kelly: Slience in the Studio

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Ellsworth Kelly, Siberian Iris, 1989, ink on paper, 29 3/4 x 23 inches, private collection, New York, Gift of the artist (© Ellsworth Kelly. Photograph Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Sharon Butler blogs some of Ellsworth Kelly's thoughts on being in the studio. "Unlike most other painters I know," Butler writes, "Kelly likes to paint in silence..."

Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawing is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York through June 5–September 3, 2012.

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Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings

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Claire Gilman blogs about the exhibition Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York through June 5–September 3, 2012.

Gilman writes that "Kelly has called the plant drawings 'a kind of bridge to a way of seeing that was the basis of the very first abstract paintings,' and indeed, both the botanical renderings and Kelly's abstract compositions aim to strip things down to their basic shapes and contours, supplying the minimal amount of information necessary to understand a form. Still, with their fragile edges and delicate lines, Kelly's plant drawings have an emotional charge that is distinct from that of his abstract work."

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Ellsworth Kelly: Profile

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Mark Rappolt profiles painter Ellsworth Kelly.

Rappolt writes: "It’s not the certainty, but the uncertainty that makes his work so special. If I say one thing about it, I immediately want to say its opposite. I think his works are not either/or, but both/and, to the point where I almost want to say nothing at all about them."

Ellsworth Kelly: Black and White is on view at Haus der Kunst, Munich through January 22, 2012 and Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings is on view at Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich through January 8, 2011.

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