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American
(1929–2017)
Alpha Booth
circa 1960
Acrylic on masonite
32.5 x 26.5 x 1.25 in. (82.55 x 67.31 x 3.175 cm)
Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
2016.68
Alpha Booth recapitulates the op art style with which Ed Mieczkowski made his splash in the New York art scene of the 1960s. The vibrant colors, rigorously rhythmic geometric composition, trompe l’oeil touches, and dense network of obliquely crossing lines approximating a moiré effect all combine to act directly upon the viewer’s retina. The painting, in fact, exists only to affect optical perception; all exterior meaning, emotion, and symbolism have been expunged. Throughout his long career Mieczkowski oscillated between such eye-dazzling work and painting (plus occasional sculpture) that engages geometric forms in more eccentric fashions. But it is with this kind of work, and with op art in general, that he is most readily identified.
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