Floral Forms
Artist
Emil Bisttram
(American, born Hungary, 1895 - 1976)
Date1935
MediumWatercolor over traces of graphite on paper
DimensionsFramed: 24 x 19 inches (60.96 x 48.26 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Hollander
Object number61-19
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DescriptionAt top on mottled blue ground, large red circular form, left, with dotted black center; top right, yellow form with orange axes and blue diagonals, several red and orange petaled circles below, bottom one with dark red center; center left, light green form crossed by square blue meander extending to center of yellow circle, three dark green lines pendant; mottled blue corner, lower right; another red circle, crossed by bottom margin, lower left, beneath brownish-black square.Gallery Label“Art should concern itself not with imitation but with creation, otherwise it fails in its prime purpose: that of inspiring and stimulating thought.”
“Abstraction, I found was merely expressing ideas in simple symbolic fashion. In simple planes and colors and lines. It’s then you discover that there is more to art than just what you see. There’s imagination, there’s beauty.” —Emil James Bisttram
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