The American artist Ellsworth Kelly, one of the leading abstract painters of the twentieth century and recognized by their color schemes in geometric arrangement, died Sunday at age 92, reported his gallery.
Kelly died Sunday at his home in the town of Spencertown New York after spending a nice Christmas with family and friends artists, and worked until the end, said today Matthew Marks, owner of the gallery of the same name, who represented.
The painter, sculptor and engraver, born in 1923 in New York, began his career after World War II and became famous for a very personal style of experimentation with colors in which combined very bright colors on neutral backgrounds.
After studying art in Brooklyn (New York) and Boston (Massachusetts), Kelly traveled to Paris at the end of the decade of the 40s the artist had known that city while serving in the Army, along with allied troops during the war.
On that trip Kelly extended his artistic education, both formal studies at the School of Fine Arts, as staff visits museums and friendship with other artists, which was established a creative personality from natural first influence of European abstract movement in vogue.
After returning to America in 1954, embarked in a search of his personal style, away from the orthodoxies and open to all the possibilities that presented abstraction.
The simplicity and definition of its forms and its vibrant and spot colors did eventually one of the greatest exponents of minimalist painting and the current “Color Field” originated in New York in the middle of the last century and derived from abstract expressionism and European modernism.
Fond bird watching since childhood, always said that hobby you helped train your eye regarding colors and develop their perception of the simplicity of natural forms.
“I think you can turn off the mind and look only to the eyes, and in the end everything becomes abstract “, said in an interview in 1991.
Kelly said not seek inspiration outside himself.
Many of his paintings from the decades 50s and 60s consisted solely of a slick geometric shape and a vivid color on a neutral background, which made him one of the leading exponents of the aesthetics of minimalist simplicity, as opposed to the then dominant abstract expressionism .
It was also one of the first artists to experiment with the format works, breaking the traditional structures and prolonging them in all dimensions.
In 1996 he was the subject of a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, which also was taken the following year the Museum of Fine Arts Los Angeles.
Although best known for his painting, Ellsworth Kelley was also an important sculptor.
In 2013, one of his 1983 sculpture, consisting of a steel structure cut in honor of the Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida, sold for $ 600,000 at an auction in London.
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