id: 168514 accession number: 2010.261 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.261 updated: 2022-01-07 22:56:28.633000 Blue Bloc, 1967. Edwin Mieczkowski (American, 1929-2017). Acrylic on canvas mounted to board; framed: 127 x 127 cm (50 x 50 in.); unframed: 121.9 x 121.9 cm (48 x 48 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, by Exchange 2010.261 Copyright 1967, Edwin Mieczkowski, All rights reserved title: Blue Bloc title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1967 creation date earliest: 1967 creation date latest: 1967 current location: 228A Cleveland Artists creditline: Anonymous Gift, by Exchange copyright: Copyright 1967, Edwin Mieczkowski, All rights reserved --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: acrylic on canvas mounted to board department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Edwin Mieczkowski (American, 1929-2017) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 127 x 127 cm (50 x 50 in.); Unframed: 121.9 x 121.9 cm (48 x 48 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: on verso: E. Mieczkowski/ "Blue Bloc"/ Spring 1967 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * "Perceptual Inquiry I: Overlap," Anonima Gallery, New York, April 3-29, 1967

"Ed Mieczkowski: Visual Paradox: Transforming Perception, Forty Years of Op Art and Geometric Abstraction," LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, April 14-May 26, 2006

"Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s," Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, February 16-June 17, 2007

"Op Out of Ohio," D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, April 15-July 9, 2010 --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: Op Art is short for optical art, which employs visual illusions. digital description: wall description: Op Art practitioner Mieczkowski created this painting in order to explore some of the perceptual effects of overlapping forms and colors. Featuring 1,316 three-quarter circular shapes in blues, greens, and yellows arrayed against a checkerboard background with gradations of gray, black, and white, Blue Bloc seems to morph in and out of focus across its surface while simultaneously pulsating from within. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES