The artwork features a simple, minimalist composition of geometric shapes and muted colors. The central element is a rectangular frame, painted in shades of gray and pink, set against a backdrop of olive green. The overall arrangement emphasizes the interplay of shapes, planes, and subtle hues, creating a visually striking and contemplative piece. The artist's emphasis on basic forms and restrained palette suggests a focus on the inherent expressiveness of the materials and their spatial relationships, reflective of the minimalist artistic approach popular in contemporary art. ...
Viewing Harold Ancart’s paintings begins with a recognition of naturally occurring elements or forms – seascapes, sunsets, icebergs – but his works move beyond representation. They draw out, magnify and invert natural colour palettes, simultaneously simplifying and complicating forms, and leaning into abstraction. The artist presents technicolour vignettes of minute acts alongside seismic shifts. The geometry of Ancart’s forms, and the play and tension between surface and depth is reminiscent of Bay Area Figurative Movement painter Richard Diebenkorn. Ancart is also inspired by Frank Auerbach and Oskar Kokoschka, which is apparent in his bold use of colour and his embracing of expressionism and representation with a reluctance to be consigned to either genre.
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C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...
