Construction # 11 - Tondo

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Title

Construction # 11 - Tondo

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Te Papa Collections Online

Description

In the late 1970s Geoff Thornley turned away from pure painting in order to better understand its fundamental elements — surface, edge and plane, and the relationship of painting to the wall. The result of this shift, which occupied the artist for nearly a decade, was a series of painted constructions. Built from pieces of canvas-covered board that were then painted and assembled, the constructions underwent numerous permutations over the following decade, among them a series of tondos, or ci...

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Image

Date created

1981

Creator

Geoffrey Thornley

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/39139

Related subjects

oil paint / canvas / boards / paintings / Auckland

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