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Lindsey Tolley
Hello, I'm Lindsay Tolley with the David Owsley Museum of Art, and this is your Owsley moment, brought to you by IPR and the Ball State School of Art.

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Esphyr Slobodkina’s 1943. Oil and made tonight painting. Winter consists of layers of abstract shapes and cool tones to create a cluttered arrangement of pastel forms. The background is color blocked by large rectangles of brown, purple, blue, black, and gray painted shapes. Smaller and more obscure angular shapes are stacked and woven amongst each other, and yet they maintain a sense of tranquility amidst the disarray, with their muted tones in a two dimensional space.

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Lindsey Tolley
Winter is one of many of the artist's abstract paintings based on nature. So back in a painted winter, when she lived in New York, it was inspired by the seasonal scenery of Manhattan. Here, the shapes are reminiscent of a January landscape, as suggested by the tones of gray, blue and dull green throughout. At first glance, this painting appears entirely non representational, but Slobodkina works to create works that suggest the outdoors without resorting to naturalism.

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Even though the literal elements of a winter scene are not highlighted in this piece, the viewer can still feel a sharp yet serene chill inSlobodkina’s painting.

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