Fjord

Mel BochnerWW-1984-132566

1984·Oil on canvas·236.2 × 238.8 cm (93 × 94 in.)

<p>Since the 1960s, pioneering Conceptual artist Mel Bochner has produced a diverse and compelling body of work focusing on language, geometric forms, and colors. Fjord is an example of the artist’s work with shaped canvases in the 1980s. The painting exhibits an ordered chaos of tactile colors and energetic lines. Bochner started with washes of gray-green then drew in red, blue, and forest green—first as washes, then as rivulets of pigment with paint thinner. The artist has said the beauty found in these works offers “an infinite number of unpredictable combinations. And because of the way geometry and biology are intertwined, the combinations are simultaneously geometric and organic.”</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1984
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 236.2 × 238.8 cm (93 × 94 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Mel Bochner

Artist

Mel Bochner

Mixed Media

Melvin Simon Bochner was an American conceptual artist. He is considered to be one of the founders of Conceptual Art, and credited with reshaping the canon of contemporary art. Bochner's 1966 exhibition, “Working Drawings And Other Visible Things On Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed As Art,” is cited as one of the first conceptual art exhibitions in the world.

Pittsburgh, United States

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