Al LovingAmerican, 1935–2005Blue Rational/Irrational (left panel)
May one see it?
Yes, receiving visitors
On public display.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Across both canvases of this large-scale diptych, Loving evokes a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface through strategic layerings of cubic forms and carefully calibrated color juxtapositions. Around the time Loving made this work he wrote, “I am tired of objects on walls. The wall must be pierced, brought forward, pushed back.” Blue Rational/Irrational is a bold manifestation of this sentiment.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Particulars
- Accession number
- 2019.58.a
In the catalog
Sources
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — © The Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
