Ellsworth Kelly: Artist Analysis

The artist I chose was Ellsworth Kelly. Ellsworth is an American artist that was born on May 31, 1923 in New York, Newburgh. He was the second out of the third childs. He died on December 27, 2015 in Spears town, New York. Growing up he watches birds and insects on his T.V. The nature of animals inspired Ellsworth to disctivinive art. After kelly had graduated from high school he went to Pratt Institute for two years to study technical art and designing. On 1943, Kelly had enlisted into the army. Kelly had entered the Camouflage until called “the Ghost Camp”. Throughout his service, kelly had went to France, England and not but not least Germany. Kelly also stayed at Paris but not for long. The places he went inspired kelly more for his visual of art.

I noticed a lot of his works has to do with the principle of art. Many of the art has shapes, repetition, directions, lines, gradations, color and sizes. Kelly’s art has changed my aspect because I didn’t think shapes would be consider as art. What I noticed is for the sculptor he had made it is also using shaped and different colors coordinating. What is even more interesting is each shaped are different sizes and shapes. The sides of each shapes are different measure and width. The name of the sculpture is called “Sculptor for a large wall” Each piece of his artwork represents a meaning. Two of Kelly’s art has repetition and lines in the art. They are called “Cite” and “The Mechers”. Cite is beige with black lines and they are all different directions but the patterns continues throughout the art. The Mercher is used by oil paint and it is green and blue. Mercher is also the same thing like cite but different