Details
The image
An all-over surface of small arcs, painted without a sketch and without a focus point, so that the eye keeps travelling and never settles. There is no composition in the ordinary sense: the pattern begins at one edge and continues to the other, and the sheet could be any size.
Where it comes from
The nets were started in New York on canvases far larger than the painter, worked at night and finished without a plan. The result is a surface you cannot finish looking at, which was the intention: repetition as a way of making a picture infinite rather than framed. That idea became one of the foundations of post-war abstraction, and it reproduces at poster scale better than almost anything painted in the same years, because nothing depends on texture or tone.
On the wall
It suits a study, a hallway or a modern living room, where an even field gives a wall texture and calm. Because the pattern has no centre, it works on long walls and in narrow spaces. In a group it should be the piece that provides density without competing.
In company
Printing of this period is what the Minimal collection is made of.Avoid hanging it beside another all-over pattern, where the two would merge into one surface.
