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Spatial Concept
Roy Ahlgren, (Erie, PA, 1927 - 2011, Erie, PA)
Ahlgren, Roy
United States
1927 - 2011
Male
17 x 16 3/4 in. (43.2 x 42.5 cm)
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1900-2000, 20th century, Charles Rand Penney Collection, serigraphs
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When you first approach this print by Roy Ahlgren, you might see a hallway covered in a brightly colored pattern. A closer look might reveal a more complex environment in which different flat surfaces meet in improbable ways. How does the artist use color and form to suggest this unreal space?
Here, Ahlgren demonstrates how the human visual system prefers to interpret a complex shape as a regular shape perceived from a different angle or position. Look at the lower left corner of this print. Do you see a flat image of ovals and diamonds? Or a three-dimensional space where different flat surfaces, each covered in a pattern of circles and squares, meet?
When you look at this image, you are most likely picking up on these spatial cues, and interpreting a complex three-dimensional space, rather than a flat image composed of different shapes.
[Label copy from Seeing in Color and Black and White, 2018]
1975.150
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
glossy
8x10
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75.150DI1
digital image
1/23/2002
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75.150DI#2
digital image
7/8/2016
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Print
Three Graces
Roy Ahlgren, (Erie, PA, 1927 - 2011, Erie, PA)
Ahlgren, Roy
United States
1927 - 2011
Male
25 1/8 x 18 7/8 in. (63.8 x 47.9 cm)
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1900-2000, 20th century, serigraphs
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1975.149
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
glossy
8x10
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75.149DI1
digital image
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75.149DI#2
digital image
7/8/2016
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