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Then there is that other element, figuration, that works its way into these paintings. Look again at Jon�s Christmas and notice how the pink forms and those defined by dark lines bear a strong resemblance to human figures. Compare this 1962 painting with Provincetown from 1985 where clearly there are landscape references. This too plays into a notion of the grid but additionally with clear reference to architecture. Still abstraction is never abandoned and so it was that Ippolito occasionally walked a tight-rope in his paintings between representational and non-representational references. This was most successfully accomplished with paintings like Palestrina and Kusadasi Bazaar where the outside references and the abstraction nicely balance each other. This was not quite the case with Ephesus which tilts toward a more direct, albeit highly stylized, landscape reading. |
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This show represents a fine array of work by one of the lesser known movers and shakers of the New York School generation. Angelo Ippolito was more then one of the founders of the Tanager; he also had a lot to do with the gallery�s look and organization which was a major influence on the cooperative galleries to subsequently follow. |
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