1960, Ed Clark, Untitled -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: Abstract Expressionist painter Ed Clark created Untitled after living and studying in Paris, where he was part of a loose community of Black American artists and writers that included James Baldwin, Romare Bearden, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Beauford Delaney, and Richard Wright. While in Paris, Clark developed a technique he described as "the big sweep," in which he lay a canvas on the floor and pushed paint across its surface using a large broom. The process became his signature method. As the artist explained, "the paint is the subject. The motions of the strokes give the work life."
1960, Ed Clark, Untitled -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: Abstract Expressionist painter Ed Clark created Untitled after living and studying in Paris, where he was part of a loose community of Black American artists and writers that included James Baldwin, Romare Bearden, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Beauford Delaney, and Richard Wright. While in Paris, Clark developed a technique he described as "the big sweep," in which he lay a canvas on the floor and pushed paint across its surface using a large broom. The process became his signature method. As the artist explained, "the paint is the subject. The motions of the strokes give the work life."