Introduction
In this paper I will investigate the work of Friedel Dzubas focusing my attention to a specific piece, Center Red (1964) showing at the University Art Museum of Colorado State University this Fall 2013.
Before introducing the painting I will attempt to describe Post Painterly Abstraction, as theorized by formal critic Clement Greenberg in 1964, and describe how Friedel Dzubas’ work was part of this movement associated with various tendencies, including Color Field painting, hard-edge abstraction, and the Washington Color School.
In the third part of my paper I will start analyzing the work of Friedel Dzubas in relationship with other Post Painterly Abstractionists, and within the Greenbergian aesthetic recipe of pure art. Finally, I will introduce my critique on Center Red, in relationship with the art movements of the time and other Dzubas’ paintings.
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