Benjamin Frazier Cunningham, Torsion 3

Benjamin Frazier Cunningham (AMERICAN, 1904-1975)

Torsion 3

Oil on panel

32 in x 24 in

1955

 

Benjamin Frazier Cunningham is another artist that never received the recognition he deserved. He was included in the 1964, Responsive Eye show at the MOMA, and his work Equivocation is one of the most recognized pieces from the show.

 

 

Selected Exhibitions

“The Responsive Eye,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1964

 

Artist Biography

Master of color theory, Ben Cunningham used an intricate structure to formulate his passionate response to visual stimuli. His work combined logic with imagination to add new dimensions to our experience of social confrontation and protest, he reaffirmed the underlying principles of perception that unite humanity. As the critic Lawrence Campbell has observed, he was "in the tradition of the masters of pictorial illusion who sought answers in science to the problems they set for themselves in art and who produced results as irreversible as the invention of photograph and the vacuum tube."

 

Excerpt from Ben Cunningham, A Life with Color by Cindy Nemser

 

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