Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Group of Black Circles

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Group of Black Circles
Alternate Title: 
Groupe de ronds noirs
Image View: 
Overall view without frame
Creator: 
Dennis Juneau (Canadian painter, 1925-2014)
Location: 
repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 1972.84
Location Note: 
National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest; Pierre Lassonde Pavilion
GPS: 
+46.801106-71.225064
Date: 
1967 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Canadian
Style Period: 
Op art; Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
acrylic paint on canvas
Technique: 
painting and painting techniques
Measurements: 
172.8 cm (height) x 172.8 cm (width)
Subjects: 
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present)
Description: 
Op art was an international art movement that flourished in Europe and America in the mid-1960s. The style is characterized by the careful manipulation of bold, sharply contrasting shapes and colors in order to create virtual movement, vibration, or chromatic tension. (Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus; http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-JUNEAU-GBC-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.