Description
Jack Youngermans Eastward was commissioned for the lobby of one of the agency buildings in the Empire State Plaza. It is a bright, active composition that attracts attention in the otherwise muted, gray lobby. The wide angle of the back wall echoes the curvilinear quality of the painted forms. A brilliant white, vaguely triangular form resting on a sloping horizontal dominates the painting. The shape of this image, placed against a rich blue background, is reversed below in a similar, but splintered, form on a lime green ground. The painting is reminiscent of a landscape with a blue sky, green ground, and a mountain and its shadow. The formal relationships between figure and ground and the top and bottom halves of the canvas assert themselves independently of these associations, however. Emphasis lies in the flat, solid rendering of the image seen in contrast to an expansive energy conveyed by the forms.
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Details
- Work Date:
- 1967
- Location:
- Agency Building 4
- Dimensions:
- 9'-6" x 15'-3"
- Medium:
- Acrylic on canvas