Martin Barre (Concert)

Name: Martin Barre (Concert)
Start: 2024-05-06T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Ridgefield Playhouse

Schedule

Mon May 06 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Ridgefield Playhouse | Ridgefield, CT

By isolating the basic components of painting — line, surface, gesture, color — Martin Barré produced a body of work that is unique in the history of abstract art. At the beginning of his career, he abandoned gestural expressionism and replaced it with his own systems-based compositional methods. Barré said of his paintings, “Seriality is the means of producing them. It is not so much the paintings that make the series as the series that produce the paintings.” This pioneering approach anticipated and influenced some of the most innovative painting of the last sixty years. In the 1950s Barré gave up using paintbrushes, first by applying paint with only a palette knife and then by squeezing it directly from the tube. In 1963, inspired by graffiti he had seen in the Paris Métro, he began a series of spray paintings on canvas. In the early 1970s he returned to using brushes, embedding each composition in layers of transparent washes with subtle colors traversed by a penciled grid implying a much lar
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