Five Flower Pieces
1967
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1967
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Five Flower Pieces is a 1967 by Ernest Edmonds, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print is almost all one deep blue color, with tiny specks scattered across it. In the top left corner, there’s a small white shape that looks like a folded piece of paper. At the bottom right, a smooth white curve cuts across the blue, like a half-moon or a slice of a circle. The artist used only two colors—white and blue—but the way the blue is textured makes it feel alive, even though there’s nothing recognizable in it. The white shapes stand out sharply against the blue, which makes the whole piece feel simple yet strange. Look up Ernest Edmonds next to see how he played with color and shape in other works.
A white arc and a white quadrilateral appear against a blue background in the 1967 work Five Flower Pieces by Ernest Edmonds.
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This is a print artist who worked in the 1960s. In the bundle you’ll find the lithograph Five Flower Pieces from 1967. Look for the way the plate splits each petal into clean angles and registers, stacking them like…
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