テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「'I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.' - Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) American painter, sculptor, and printmaker Ellsworth Kelly was known for his unassuming techniques emphasising line, form and bright colours. Mediterranée was Kelly’s first purely abstract relief, completed in 1952 and made from a series of identically shaped rectangular wooden panels. Nine panels are mounted onto a wooden support to form a grid, which is three panels high by three panels wide. Mounted on top of three of the panels are a further three thinner panels of wood – painted cream, red and blue – which project out from the surface to varying degrees. While the cream and red hover about a centimetre away from the underlying panels on the far left and far right hand side of the middle row, the blue protrudes only a few millimetres above the middle panel of the bottom row. Seen from afar the relief effect of Méditerranée is almost imperceptible, only becoming evident when the viewer approaches the work up close or views it from the side, when the gaps between the panels and the subtle shadows created by them are revealed. Other intricacies are also only noticeable at close range: for example, one of the black panels has a gloss finish, while another is matte, and a series of small, painted nails line the edge of some of the panels. It has been suggested that Kelly’s background in the military was a source of the seriousness or perfection in his works. In 1996 he explained: 'I think what we all want from art is a sense of fixity, a sense of opposing the chaos of daily living. This an illusion, of course. Canvas rots. Paint changes color. But you keep trying to freeze the world as if you could make it last forever. In a sense, what I've tried to capture is the reality of flux, to keep art an open, incomplete situation, to get at the rapture of seeing.' Ellsworth Kelly, Méditerranée 1952, Tate collection」2月12日 4時27分