Painting no. 18
1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 168.0 × 244.5 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in black ballpoint pen on reverse u.c.: Blow '68
- Accession Number
- 1831-5
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1968 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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A pioneer of abstract art in the United Kingdom, Sandra Blow travelled to Italy in 1947, where she was influenced by the Italian-American Abstract Expressionist painter Nicolas Carone and also by Alberto Burri, who was creating monochrome abstracted canvases covered with experimental materials such as sand, pumice and tar. Throughout the 1950s Blow constructed her compositions in a similar manner to Burri, but in the 1960s her work became more gestural and colourful. British art critic Peter Davies once described how Blow – with her ‘canvases that celebrated the mood of the 1960s and beyond, light, open compositions punctuated with bright, eyecatching colour’ – made abstract painting ‘seem as natural and commonplace as sliced bread’.
- Subjects (general)
- Nonrepresentational Art
- Subjects (specific)
- brush strokes colours (hues or tints) diagonal warm colours
