Balcomb Greene 心地よい空間へ
感性、 ではない
ギャラリーへ
ムードを選ぶだけで、空間がそれに応えます。光は冷たさや温もりを帯び、空気の流れが変わり、その感情を宿した作品だけが暗闇の中から浮かび上がります。それ以外のすべては、影の中へと退いていくのです。
Balcomb Greene
A Life Dedicated to the Evolving Language of Abstraction Balcomb Greene, born John Wesley Greene in 1904 in Millville, New York, embarked on a remarkable artistic journey that mirrored the seismic shifts occurring within the American art world throughout the 20th century. Initially steered toward a religious path by his father, a Methodist minister, Greene’s intellectual curiosity led him to Syracuse University where he immersed himsel
f in philosophy and psychology. This early exploration of the human condition, of thought and perception, would subtly inform his later artistic endeavors, even as he moved decisively away from representational forms. A pivotal moment arrived with his marriage to fellow artist Gertrude Glass Greene in 1926, a partnership that proved not only personally fulfilling but also creatively catalytic. Together, they ventured to Paris in 1931,…