Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Group of Black Circles
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Alternate Title:
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Groupe de ronds noirs
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Dennis Juneau (Canadian painter, 1925-2014)
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Location:
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repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 1972.84
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Location Note:
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National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest; Pierre Lassonde Pavilion
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GPS:
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+46.801106-71.225064
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Date:
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1967 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Canadian
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Style Period:
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Op art; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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acrylic paint on canvas
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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172.8 cm (height) x 172.8 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present)
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Description:
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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/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-JUNEAU-GBC-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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