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Louise Fishman1993
- Attribution
- Louise Fishman American, 1939-2021
- Medium
- Oil on linen
- Physical dimensions
- 279.4 × 177.8 cm (110 × 70 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Miller and Sarah Wittenborn Miller
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In her bold and large-scale paintings, Louise Fishman expands the tradition of Abstract Expressionism through continuous experimenting with composition and form. Exuding a dynamic interplay of fluid gesture and grid, Iron Sharpens Iron exemplifies the vertically oriented compositions of the artist’s work of the early 1990s. Her brushstrokes evoke Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, inspired in part by her daily Buddhist meditation practice. The work’s formal iconography developed out of Fishman’s career-long investigations into the abstract and contemplative qualities of painting.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0