New York Japan Contemporary Artist Martin Canin Geometric Print. Signed. 1977

Description: For sale is a wonderful contemporary screenprint by the well-known New York Japan color field and geometric composition artist Martin Canin (1927 - 2000) Provenance: Brooke Alexander Gallery. New York City The print with juxtaposing geometric forms stacked against each other in soft hues of color in a white woven paper ground. A wonderful artwork from an artist who ended up living directly across the Hudson river from where I live in upstate New York in the lush Hudson Valley of upstate New York Artist: Martin Canin (Brooklyn, New York (1927 - 2000) Medium: Screen-print on woven paper Date: 1977 Edition: 13/36 Signed: In Pencil Framing: Unframed Condition: The print in overall good condition with only light waving to the edges. Will lay flat just fine with matting and framing. **SHIPS CAREFULLY ROLLED IN A LARGE SHIPPING TUBE** Measurements: 20" x 27" Martin Canin (Brooklyn, New York, 1927—Rhinebeck, New York, 2000) was an American Color Field painter, contemporary to the Washington Color School (Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland). Canin’s work demonstrates Hans Hoffman’s dictum: “A painting […] must light up from the inside through the intrinsic qualities which color relations offer. It must not be illuminated from the outside by superficial effects. When it lights up from the inside, the painted surface breathes, because the interval relations which dominate the whole cause it to oscillate and vibrate” (Search for the Real and Other Essays, pp. 65-78). As a color field painter, Canin intensifies the way we perceive different hues by juxtaposing them in bands and forms. His style creates “neon”, “golden”, or “buttery” chromatic vibrations— as seen in Ozone, Gateway, or Broadway Jump— hypnotizing the viewer through their calm warmth. Canin grew up in New York and received a B.F.A from Syracuse University in 1951. Upon completing his education, he worked around the United States for a number of years, especially in California. In 1959, Canin decided to pursue painting abroad, moving to Japan with his family. He spent most of the 1960s and 1970s in Japan, Europe, and Israel. Despite the time he lived in Europe, Canin’s work draws its chromatic influence from the seasonal colors of Japan and the Hudson River Valley. One feels the color of the particular changes in a Maple leaf or pure summer sky of both countries. In Orient Yellow, for example, we see a peach blossom pink fading into the orange-yellow tones of a Japanese sunset. These colors, reminiscent of the motifs that mark Japanese painting, are cut by green celadon lines of varying intensity, giving the prodigious sense of a horizon that is at once vertical and horizontal. Hagaroma (The name is in reference to the Hagaromo, worn by the Tennin, figures of Japanese Buddhism) is framed in the shape of a traditional Japanese kimono, with deep, solid colors similar to those found in the Genji Monogatari Emaki of the 12th century. Upon returning to New York in the 1970’s, Canin took up a position at the Parsons School of Design, teaching drawing, textile work, and color theory. Though he expressed himself strictly through paint, it seems as if Canin was influenced by Josef Albers’ experiments with colored leaves and paper cutouts as expressed in The Interaction of Color. The colors forming later work such as Spring Fling (1983), give the impression of a tended clothesline celebrated against the New York skyline. In essence, lightness, warmth, and purity encompass the power with which his paintings strike the viewer. In a statement on his work, Canin said: “Luminosity is still the goal, oil paint on canvas still the preferred medium, shape and color still the means to speak my particular expression.” It is of no surprise that he spent his final years living and working in Rhinebeck, close to his origins and those of American Art. Canin was exhibited by Graham gallery in New York and had various solo shows in Japan and Europe in his lifetime. His work is part of the permanent collections of the Tate Modern, the Yale University Art Gallery, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Price: 275 USD

Location: Kingston, New York

End Time: 2024-11-30T18:15:16.000Z

Shipping Cost: 14.5 USD