Composition 1958 conveys a collision of robust crystalline forms which fuse and lock in to one another. Configured of thick planes of earthen hued oil this non-referential painting is intended...
Composition 1958 conveys a collision of robust crystalline forms which fuse and lock in to one another. Configured of thick planes of earthen hued oil this non-referential painting is intended to be an object in its own right.
Heath published an essay Abstract Art: Its Origins and Meaning, 1953, simultaneously he started creating a series of constructions. Composition 1958 is a painting made after Heath worked on developing these constructions which explains the paintings physical robustness. Heath was to become the main link between the St Ives School and the London based Constructionists (Claude Rogers, Mary and Kenneth Martin, Victor Pasmore and Anthony Hill).