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Article: JUST BETWEEN YOU AND EYE : ARTIST ELLSWORTH KELLY'S COLORFUL GEOMETRIC CREATIONS ARE ALL ABOUT PERCEPTION.(L.A. Life)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- February 16, 1997
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Byline: Reed Johnson Daily News Staff Writer
``Look,'' Ellsworth Kelly urges quietly. ``Try not to think. Just look.''
Hanging before him, on a wall at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles, is Kelly's ``Yellow Black.'' A large composition, like most of the artist's work, the 1988 oil on canvas measures more than 13 feet across and 9 feet high.
Your eyes go first to the black rectangle, which appears to be piggy-backing on the much larger yellow square. Locked in diagonal tension, the two panels jockey for position.
Your gaze then slides from left to right: first black, then yellow, then the cool white neutrality of ...