NOT TITLED

© Antoni Malinowski

NOT TITLED 1990

Antoni Malinowski (1955 – )

Details

Dimension
183 X 244
Media
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
Accession number
P5876

Summary

The configuration in Not Titledis bold, drawing the eye to the bright centre as iron filings to a magnet. The lines themselves appear tightly drawn. There is a precision about his work that invites comparison to scientific observation, a scrutiny of natural effects which lends lyricism to the whole. The artist has written about this painting that ‘The rectangle offers an undifferentiated field; the line traces the structure of thinking. Colour renders the emotional plane of understanding. Time is measured by the making of marks.’

New Voices New Works for the British Council Collection, The British Council 1992

Glossary

  • Drawing

    The depiction of shapes and forms on a flat surface chiefly by means of lines although colour and shading may also be included. Materials most commonly used are pencil, ink, crayon, charcoal, chalk and pastel, although other materials, including paint, can be used in combination.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.