Before the Storm

2000
Vitale, Magda

Object Details

TITLE:
Before the Storm
DATE:
2000
MEDIUM:
Oil on paper
DIMENSIONS:
22 x 30 in.
CREDIT LINE:
Gift of the artist, 2011

Not currently on view

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Description

Vitale’s abstraction alludes to the landscape and the growing energy of an oncoming storm. Full of rich color and pattern, the composition is a tense counterpoint of organic and rectilinear shapes with playfully stylized forms.

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