Rosemarie Castoro, Two Blues Band, 1965

1965

Medium

Acrylic on paper

Dimensions

12.7 × 50.8 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155847

Rosemarie Castoro's drawing Two Blues Band (1965) is one of her minimalist Interference paintings and drawings, created in the mid-sixties and in which she establishes a relationship between repetitive geometric forms, color, and her choreographic training and activities. After her studies at the Pratt Institute in New York, Castoro began experimenting with various forms of expression and media - from drawing, painting and installations to choreography and modern dance. The rectangular blue forms in Two Blues Band combine her various interests and can be interpreted as dance steps that spread out in a regular rhythm from left to right across the sheet. There are similarities to dance pieces by Castoro and Yvonne Rainer - who is considered the founder of postmodern dance - in which rectangular bars were used as props and moved on stage. The title Two Blues Band is to be understood literally as well as descriptively and thus stands in the tradition of minimalism, which was also called "literalism" by the art historian and art critic Michael Fried.