Ronald Langley Bloore 1925 - 2009

Private Collection, Toronto

Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, Toronto, 2007, p. 152

Terrence Heath, Ronald Bloore, Not Without Design, Regina, 1993, p. 43 for an illustration of a very similar painting

This painting is in overall very good condition. There is minor paint loss in the lower right corner.
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Bloore, a member of the Regina Five, did his first white-on-white paintings in 1957 when he was teaching at the University of Toronto.  He had a preconceived idea of what he wanted in his art rather than working in a spontaneous manner.

Nasgaard notes:

Bloore's works seem diagramatic, but his linear patterns, his sunbursts, his crystalline forms, do not constitute a formulated iconic content, but are more like an 'iconic formalism'.  In other words, the viewer will have the sensation of a communication, albeit couched in an unknown or forgotten language delivered by a surface pattern of abstract calligraphy and near-archetypal symbols...

Bloore developed one of the most distinctly articulated voices of his generation.