Art:Sunset Corner
Sunset Corner is a 1969 acrylic painting by American artist Helen Frankenthaler.[1] The University of Michigan Museum of Art purchased it in 1973.[1]
In 2018, it was loaned to the Williams College Museum of Art for an exhibition called "Topographies of Color."[2] William Jaeger, writing for the Times Union, called the piece "a large, extraordinary work. . . dominated by a huge cascade of wan brick brown as it flows toward the bottom where other indistinct forms layer and grow in concentration to a kind of horizon. Your eyes want to linger in these last hard horizontal swaths, but you end up returning upward to the translucent dim 'sky' because it is so vast."[2]
From 2018 to 2020, it has been on display at the University of Michigan Museum of Art for all three parts of a series of exhibitions called Abstraction, Color, and Politics, curated by museum director Christina Olsen.[3][4][5][6]
Background
Frankenthaler was active in the Color Field movement, and Sunset Corner features highly saturated blocks and swathes of shades of orange and gold.[1] Frankenthaler painted it using her "soak-stain" method.[7]
Influence
Linda Gregerson's poem "Bleedthrough" (published in 1996) is inspired by this painting.[8][9] Karl Kirchwey writes, "What is described is the effect of looking at the world through closed eyelids; in bright light, this results in just the blood-tinged wash that Frankenthaler's painting depicts."[8] Another writer, for the Michigan Daily, noted its possible representation of menstrual blood.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Exchange: Sunset Corner". https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/21717.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jaeger, William (2018-08-15). "Williams College exhibit salutes color field painters" (in en-US). https://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Williams-College-exhibit-salutes-color-field-13158323.php.
- ↑ "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, University of Michigan Museum of Art". https://umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/2018/abstraction-color-and-politics-in-the-early-1970s.
- ↑ "Abstraction, Color, and Politics, University of Michigan Museum of Art". https://umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/2019/abstraction-color-and-politics.
- ↑ "Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope, University of Michigan Museum of Art". https://umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/2020/abstraction-color-and-politics-in-the-60s-and-70s-kaleidoscope.
- ↑ Porter, Christopher (17 April 2019). "Large-Scale Statements: Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s at UMMA | Ann Arbor District Library". https://aadl.org/node/393192.
- ↑ "Abstraction & Politics @ UMMA – Detroit Art Review" (in en-US). https://detroitartreview.com/2018/10/abstraction-politics-umma/.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Hedley, Jane; Halpern, Nick; Spiegelman, Willard (2009) (in en). In the Frame: Women's Ekphrastic Poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 978-0-87413-046-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=_k4btsmlVtMC&dq=%22helen%20frankenthaler%22%20%22sunset%20corner%22&pg=PA103.
- ↑ Denham, Robert D. (2010-03-10) (in en). Poets on Paintings: A Bibliography. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5658-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=6FjgDuVNAvAC&dq=linda+gregerson+bleed+through+painting&pg=PA10.
- ↑ Writer, Jenna Barlage Daily Arts. "'Art, Abstraction, and Politics in the Early 1970s, Apolitical art as inherently political" (in en). https://www.michigandaily.com/section/arts/%E2%80%98art-abstraction-and-politics-early-1970s%E2%80%99-apolitical-art-inherently-political.
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