Tearing the Sky Out of the Night
Artist
Cleve Gray
(1918 - 2004)
Date1979
MediumAcrylic polymer on canvas
Dimensions68 x 114 in.
ClassificationsAcrylic Painting
Credit LineGift of Francine du Plessix Gray
Object number2005.186
DescriptionFor over fifty years, Gray was one of the most well respected and successful artists living in Connecticut. Gray described his art in the following terms: "My painting has to do with the resolution of tensions. I see the purpose of art as a struggle to resolve opposites into harmony. The formal elements are the means by which the disorder of nature can be ordered into the new reality of art. In my view, accident can be joined with measurement; and just as good is inseparable from evil or life from death, the reality of art is inseparable from illusion."On View
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