BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1721@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20170403 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20170530 DTSTAMP:20170213T140759Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-ellsworth-kelly-f ocus/ SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: Ellsworth Kelly in Focus DESCRIPTION:\n\nEllsworth Kelly in Focus\n\nTate Liverpool\n3 April to 29 M ay 2017\n\nFREE\n\nThis spring Tate Liverpool presents work by one of Amer ica’s greatest 20th century abstract artists\, Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2 015). The first Ellsworth Kelly display in the north of England\, it prese nts 11 paintings\, prints and reliefs spanning more than six decades of th e artist’s career.\n\nBorn in Newburgh\, New York\, American artist Kell y studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Beg inning his career as a figurative artist\, during the Second World War he served in the US Army’s camouflage unit\, later applying the methods and research employed there to introduce innovative colour and coding techniq ues into his painting. Following the war\, in 1948 he spent a number of ye ars in Paris where he was influenced by the work of artists including Henr i Matisse (1869–1954) and Fernand Léger (1881–1955).\n\nKelly became a seminal figure in the development of abstract painting and is renowned f or creating often large scale paintings\, prints and sculptures. Rather th an creating pictures that represented a thing seen\, he considered his wor ks as ‘objects’ in themselves. For Kelly\, the primary forms found in the built environment – from the Egyptian pyramids to cathedral vaults – cast a significant influence on his work.\n\nHighlights of the display include Méditerranée 1952 inspired by his fascination with how light wa s refracted on the surface of the River Seine\; Broadway 1958\, one of a s eries of paintings titled after the famous avenue in New York\; Orange Rel ief with Green 1991\, a multi-panel combining clean lines\, block colours and abstract forms.\n\nA selection of the works displayed have been bequea thed to the Tate collection following the artist’s death in 2015 at the age of ninety. Kelly was the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Mode rn in 1996\, a display at Tate St Ives in 2006 and the new Tate Modern cur rently has a dedicated room of the artist’s work.\n\nEllsworth Kelly in Focus forms part of Tate Liverpool’s spring 2017 season which features a new display for Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art and O.K. – The Musical. Ellsworth Kelly in Focus continue s Tate Liverpool’s In Focus displays which offer visitors the chance to see a free display dedicated to a significant modern and contemporary arti st. Tracey Emin &\; William Blake in Focus continues until 3 September. From 22 September 2017 – 10 June 2018 the gallery presents ARTIST ROOMS : Roy Lichtenstein in Focus.\n\nEllsworth Kelly in Focus is curated by Dar ren Pih\, Exhibitions and Displays Curator\, Tate Liverpool.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2017/01/installation_view_of_ellsworth_kelly_black_square_with_blue_1970 _on_display_at_tate_modern_2.jpg LOCATION:Tate Liverpool\, Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L3 4BB\, Liverpool\, Un ited Kingdom GEO:53.4003;-2.9927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L 3 4BB\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Tate Liverpo ol:geo:53.4003,-2.9927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR