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HORIZONTAL RECTANGULAR RELIEF - WHITE 1968
Malcolm Hughes (1920 – 1997)
Details
- Dimension
- 128 X 71 X 10 CM
- Media
- PLYWOOD, HARDBOARD AND PVA
- Accession number
- P1562
Summary
The present ‘work in progress’ emerged out of one particular aspect of ,y immediate past work and my interest in relatively simple thematic material. That is to say, I have been concerned to investigate and develop certain ideas relating to sequence, rhythm, extension and repetition.
The conceptual means employed, again basically simple, tend to be those of extraction and reduction from a given sequence of numbers. Sometimes these are taken in one direction only; at other, alternating direction and superimposition are used.
Another extension of the means, at the perceptual level, takes place when the are of decision-making enters that of the concrete/physical. Real light and limited physical space now become the principal egnts that one is working with, and the particular demands and characteristics of the constructional relief become manifest.
Four Artists Reliefs, Constructions and Drawings, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1968.
Glossary
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Reduction
Firing in a kiln where the supply of oxygen can be limited to prevent full combustion taking place. This will produce carbon monoxide which, if hot enough, will take oxygen from the metals present in both clay and glaze to produce effects totally different from those in oxidised firing. Coppers turn red, iron turns to green, and iron pyrites in clay gives a speckled appearance.