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Ronald Langley Bloore 1925 - 2009
Description
- Ronald Langley Bloore
- White Abstract Painting
- oil on masonite
- 109.2 by 228.6 cm.
- 43 by 96 in.
Provenance
Literature
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
Condition
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Catalogue Note
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.