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Milan Mrkusich

Milan Mrkusich (1925 - 2018) was active/lived in New Zealand.  Milan Mrkusich is known for Painting.

Two Areas Blue exemplifies the ‘area’ paintings produced by Milan Mrkusich (1925-2018) in the early 1980s. Though the series marks a specific point in the artist’s artistic development and oeuvre, Two Areas Blue is also representative of Mrkusich’s consistent exploration of colour, fused with considerations of form, surface and scale. By the 1980s, Mrkusich had long abandoned figurative paintings, and embraced geometry and abstraction. Two Areas Blue is formed by two amorphous rectangular panels, made of a compressed wood fibre board, mounted together on a wooden support. This joining of the two customwood panels is seamless, discernible only by close observation. The adjacent panels in Mrkusich’s area paintings position colours edge to edge, and accordingly they have been romantically interpreted as stories of colour: like words on a page, or pages in a book, the viewer goes from one panel to the next, experiencing the colour and reading the painting.¹ With two differing blue Milan Mrkusich – Two Areas Blue Essay by VICTORIA MUNN 1 Alan Wright and Edward Hanfling, Mrkusich: The Art of Transformation (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2009), 87. 2 Peter Leech, “Painting, Object, Relation: A decade of Milan Mrkusich painting,” in exhibition catalogue Milan Mrkusich: A decade further on 1974- 1983, 27. 3 Quote from a letter responding to questions by T. L. R. Wilson, E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, cited in William McAloon, Milan Mrkusich: Six Journeys exhibition catalogue (Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery, 1996).   ...  [Displaying 1597 of 6258 characters.]  Artist bio

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