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from Auction House Records.
Golden Section Painting
© 2001 Dorthea Rockburne / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Biography from AskART:
| Fascinated by both art and science, especially astronomy and astrophysics, Dorothea Rockburne believes that art and science originate from a single source and are informed by the same reality. In her paintings, many which look like swirling astrological subjects, she expresses her sense of harmony, correspondences and patterns that she regards as ultimate beauty with metaphysical significance. Some of her work is also described as minimalist and geometric because she has folded canvas into parallelograms and triangles with variations of surface texture.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Rockburne relied upon the Fibonacci series, a set theory of mathematics of chance as taught by the French mathematician Henri Poincare. She was also inspired by the early Italian painters Giotto and Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
A Canadian, she attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal throughout her childhood and early teenage years and in the 1950s studied at the Black Mountain School in North Carolina.
Source:
Charlotte Rubinstein, "American Women Artists"
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Dorothea Rockburne was born in 1934 and raised in a suburb of Verdun, Quebec, Canada. She began life as a sickly child, but emerged healthy and fiercely independent. She attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal throughout her childhood and early teenage years and then Black Mountain College in North Carolina where she studied with Guston, Vicente and Tworkov and where her friends were Twombly, Rauschenberg and Kline. She married, had a daughter Christine and divorced when the baby was two and a half. In the mid-1950s, they moved to New York City where she spent much time experimenting with painting.
In the 1960s she tried dancing, learning much that was a help in her painting, and still experimenting with painted structures. Shape, form, color, space and material combine to produce a mathematical energy that, in turn, emits a sense of transcendent equilibrium. It is work that in intonation rings true but that in meaning leaves the door wide open to many interpretations.
Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Sources include:
'Unanswered Questions' by John Gruen in "ARTnews", March 1986
Catalogue of National Museum of Women in the Arts
From the Internet, www.AskART.com
Contemporary Artists
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Dorothea Rockburne is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Women Artists
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