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“Kelly extracted colour from the world and gave it back as a shape — pure red, pure ultramarine, pure green, hung as if borrowed from a building.”

Ellsworth Kelly

Painter · Minimalism · 1923–2015

American hard-edge painter whose shaped panels staged saturated red, ultramarine, and green as flat, autonomous objects.

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“Kelly extracted colour from the world and gave it back as a shape — pure red, pure ultramarine, pure green, hung as if borrowed from a building.”

American hard-edge painter whose shaped panels staged saturated red, ultramarine, and green as flat, autonomous objects.

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