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Title

Untitled

2014

Artist

Allan Mitelman

Poland, Australia

06 Aug 1946 –

  • Details

    Date
    2014
    Media category
    Drawing
    Materials used
    ink, acrylic on very thick off-white wove paper
    Dimensions
    16.7 x 28.0 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Signed and dated bot c., white ink "AM / 14".
    Signed and dated bot c., black ink "AM / 14".
    Signed and dated verso l.l. black ink "AM 14".

    Credit
    Gift of Matisse Mitelman 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    58.2018
    Copyright
    © Allan Mitelman/Copyright Agency

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    Described as ‘an art of sensibility’ (Terence Maloon, Allan Mitelman, paintings 1972-2002 Melbourne: VCA, 2002 p.23), Allan Mitelman’s work benefits from sustained observation. A palpable quality of touch is evident in every work, nuanced and appealing foremost to the senses. Mitelman’s work defies meaning; rather, each work is an object with which the viewer is persuaded to engage imaginatively and associatively. Complex, yet intimate in scale and intuitive in execution, his abstract mark-making is singularly obsessive, tactile and rarified. Drawing forms a central part of his practice, and the variety of his materials and drawing/painting methods lends nuance and variety to an oeuvre that at first glance appears largely monochromatic, later proves to be richly varied in colour and form.

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