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Alloway, Lawrence | May 26, 1969 issue

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The article comments on artist Jules Olitski and his work. Five works by Jules Olitski, now on view at the Metropolitan Museum, introduce the sculpture of a painter. He defines this sense of shape not as separate object placed closely in relation to the ground but as being in itself derived from the ground." While it is true that his sculptures are mostly low lying, they do not have quite this relation to the ground. Such an intersection of structure and earth takes place in many "earth works" which are fabricated out of the ground and take the planet as the work's base, but Olitski's sculptures of cut and welded aluminum are something else.

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OLITSKI, Jules; ARTISTS; SCULPTURE; ALUMINUM -- Welding; MUSEUMS; ART
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