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Angelo Ippolito, Lover�s Landscape, 1980, oil on linen, 48 x 54 in

casually demark x and y coordinates. What distracts your attention from the grid is the variation of the color, contrast and proportion of the central forms spread out evenly across the picture plane.  The latter dissipate into the darker greenish-golden forms that surround the edges. Now contrast this with Lover�s Landscape created nearly 30 years later.  The forms acknowledge some semblance of the grid but the proportions are most notably askew. Three vertical lines come down from the top of canvas but are cut short by the untidy heap of scattered  forms. The jumbling

Angelo Ippolito, Provincetown, 1965, oil on linen, 51 x 51 in

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Angelo Ippolito, Yellow Landscape, 1953, oil on matteboard, 11 x 17in

throws a chaotic monkey wrench into the neat order integral to the grid.  It is this that provides the primary tension for these paintings with a secondary tension stirred up by the color.

Angelo Ippolito, Kusadasi Bazaar, 1991, oil on linen, 69 x 84 in

Angelo Ippolito, Palestrina, 1980, oil on canvas, 66 x 72 in

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