GRIDS (1965-70)
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Ian wrote the following sometime in late 60’s and contemporary to the Grids and Abstracts:
- Painting is the chromatic structure of surface.
- The structure will be 2 dimensional.
- When the structure requires 3 dimensions, it will cease to be painting and become construction.
- Painting is governed by basic perception of order which defines the square and the circle.
- Painting will not represent the visual appearance of nature.
- The structure will be amplified by the use of colour.
- Colour will be functional and not emotional.
- The armature is the total area of the painting from which the structure is derived.
- The painting being a finite structure will refer only to itself.
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"1.67" 1967 polymer 122x122cm
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"2 68" 1968 oil on canvas 183x178cm
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"7 69" 1969 oil on canvas 183x200cm
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"6 69" 1969 oil on canvas 182x182cm
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