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Details
- Other Title
- Meditation Landscape
- Date
- (1977)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 244.0 x 163.0 cm stretcher
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 345.1977
- Copyright
- © Karen Aspden
- Artist information
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David Aspden
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About
'The leaf-like forms flutter over dark green surfaces, autumn floors, and blue pond spaces with touches of colour that recall a rosary of herbal tints … All geometric structuring has been replaced by floating color [sic] upon color.'
Sandra McGrath, Australian, 1977
This painting exemplifies Aspden’s deft placement of shapes and musical ‘accenting’ of colour to create movement on the surface of the canvas, as well as interplay between foreground and background. One of a series of Meditation paintings and drawings made at this time, it marked a new development in his work in which he arranged his signature free-form shapes more loosely over the canvas in what was termed a ‘floating’ style.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
David Aspden (1977), Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Woollahra, 17 Sep 1977–12 Oct 1977
Australian abstraction 1965-1985: from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Dec 2006–25 Jan 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Nancy Borlase., The Sydney Morning Herald, 'A reminder of the goodness of good art', Sydney, 24 Sep 1977.
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Rudi Krausmann, Aspect: Art and Literature, 'David Aspden' interviewed, pg. 19-29, Mona Vale, 1979, 23 (illus.).
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Sandra McGrath., The Australian, 'Less urgent', Sydney, 21 Sep 1977.
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W.E. Pidgeon., Sunday telegraph, 'A change in meaning', Sydney, 02 Oct 1977.
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Helen Campbell with Eric Riddler, David Aspden: the colour of music and place, 'Chronology', pg. 79-85, Sydney, 2011, 36 (caption), 37 (colour illus.), 82, 88.
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Rudy Komon Art Gallery, David Aspden, Sydney, 1977. cat.no. 6; titled 'Meditation'
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