When two directions become all directions (Golden yellow)
2013
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Measurements
183.5 × 244.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of an anonymous donor through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2015
© David Thomas
Gallery location
Gallery 9
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
David Thomas engages closely with both the history of monochrome painting and new iterations of this tradition. He explores the conditional parameters of painting and the perception of space and time. In this work, the white ground exposed in two opposite corners of the canvas give the appearance of two large brushstrokes interrupting the painting’s surface. Thomas places colour in relation to this white ground to create a space of emptiness, or a pause where he hopes viewers will stop to reflect on their environments and emotional responses to the painting. He has said ‘In the act of painting you feel…thought, touch and emotion are connected.’
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.l.: Thomas 2013
inscribed (vertically) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.l.: (upward arrow) When two directions become all directions ’ (Golden yellow) acrylic on linen
Accession Number
2015.106
Department
Contemporary Art
Subjects (general)
Abstract Art Nonrepresentational Art
Subjects (specific)
colours (hues or tints) monochrome negative space rectangles shape (form attribute)