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Elsworth Kelly
The Aesthetics of Chance: Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance I to VIII, 1951
Nr II, V, VII, V
"…Ellsworth Kelly’s “Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance” is one of the first abstract works the artist produced after abandoning figure painting. A series of eight collages (*) made up of hundreds of squares of colour randomly placed on a white or black background,” Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance” was the product of a mathematical system: numbered slips of paper referred each to one of eighteen different hues to be placed on a grid 40 inches by 40 inches. For each one of the eight collages Kelly used a different process, working one colour at a time and always unaware of the results…"
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