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Ilya BolotowskyBlue Tondo, De Stijl Oil Painting by Ilya Bolotowsky1978
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Original Oil on Canvas painting by noted Abstract artist Ilya Bolotowsky (Russian/American 1907 - 1981).
Artist: Ilya Bolotowsky, Russian/American (1907 - 1981)
Title: Blue Tondo
Year: 1978
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 31.5 in. (80.01 cm) diameter
Born to Jewish parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, Bolotowsky immigrated to America in 1923 via Constantinople, settling in New York City. He attended the National Academy of Design. He became associated with a group called "The Ten Whitney Dissenters,"[1] or simply "The Ten," artists, including Louis Schanker, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko and Joseph Solman, who rebelled against the strictures of the Academy and held independent exhibitions.
During this period, Bolotowsky came under the influence of the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian and the tenets of neoplasticism, a movement that advocated the possibility of ideal order in the visual arts. Bolotowsky adopted his mentor's use of horizontal and vertical geometric pattern and a palette restricted to primary colors and neutrals.
In 1936, having turned to geometric abstractions, he was one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists, a cooperative formed to promote the interests of abstract painters and to increase understanding between themselves and the public.
He taught at Black Mountain College during the period 1946-1948, Kenneth Noland was among his students.
Bolotowsky's mural for the Williamsburg Housing Project in Brooklyn, was one of the first abstract murals done under the Federal Art Project. Despite Bolotowsky's clear, precise control of his images, he emphasized the role of intuition over formula in determining his compositions.
In the 1960s, he began making three-dimensional forms, usually vertical and straight-sided. He taught humanities and fine arts at the Southampton, New York campus of Long Island University.
- Creator:Ilya Bolotowsky (1907-1981, American, Russian)
- Creation Year:1978
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Long Island City, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU466120304
Ilya Bolotowsky
Ilya Bolotowsky grew up in Russia and enjoyed drawing, but his family wanted him to do something “socially useful,” so he planned to be a lawyer. He changed his mind after he moved to New York, however, and enrolled at the National Academy of Design. During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration hired him as a mural painter, and he was one of the first artists to create completely abstract designs for the project. He composed geometric images from colored rectangles and squares, inspired by his belief in “ideal harmony and order.” From the late 1940s, Bolotowsky used canvases shaped as diamonds, circles, and ovals to show how the edge of the painting could change the visual effect of the lines and angles within. (Bolotowsky, interviewed by Svendsen and Poser, Ilya Bolotowsky, 1974)
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