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Featured image (no title, Blockx cadmium yellow light) is reproduced from
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/18/2019

Lynda Benglis on "philosopher purist" Paul Mogensen

Featured image (no title, Blockx cadmium yellow light) is reproduced from Karma's whopping new 424-page clothbound monograph on NYC-based Minimalist painter Paul Mogensen. In her essay, painter and long-time friend Lynda Benglis describes Mogensen as a "philosopher purist, very logical in terms of accepting the most direct means of making a painting with great clarity. I think Paul has no reason to mix colors that have already been studied and manufactured. Instead, he diagrams the canvases so that the colors have their maximum hue, brightness, and intensity. He's as romantic as Mondrian and as precise—but not as cool—as Brice Marden's claylike and tactile approach…"

Paul Mogensen

Paul Mogensen

Karma Books, New York
Hbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 424 pgs / 350 color.

$50.00  free shipping





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