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
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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
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culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique: acrylic on canvas mounted to board
department: Contemporary Art
collection: CONTEMP - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Edwin Mieczkowski (American, 1929-2017) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 127 x 127 cm (50 x 50 in.); Unframed: 121.9 x 121.9 cm (48 x 48 in.)
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inscription: on verso: E. Mieczkowski/ "Blue Bloc"/ Spring 1967
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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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
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PROVENANCE
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fun fact:
Op Art is short for optical art, which employs visual illusions.
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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.
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