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- bill 12-31-2007 6:14 pm [add a comment]

charles g shaw and the plastic polygon:

By 1933 he had begun to develop his notion of the “plastic polygon,” his term for a shaped canvas—probably the first such invention in American painting—which he derived from abstracting the outline of the Manhattan skyline. “Sprouting, so to speak, from the steel and concrete of New York City,” as Shaw put it, his elegant reductions of skyscrapers into parallel rectangles of primary colors and different heights was, for its time, a radical pictorial device that uncannily presaged American Minimalist painting of the 1960s.

from roberta smith for the nyt 12/20/07

“Charles G. Shaw” continues through Saturday at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, Manhattan; (212) 247-0082; www.michaelrosenfeldart.com. “Manhattan Modern: The Life and Work of Charles Green Shaw” runs through Feb. 7 at the Archives of American Art, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, at 51st Street, (212) 399-5015; www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits. More Articles in Arts »
- bill 12-31-2007 10:16 pm [add a comment]