Six Identified Forms
About this artwork
This is one of Innes's 'Identified Forms' paintings, a series begun in 1990. Although the gashes and trails look like random marks inflicted on the canvas, they were created by coaxing turpentine to run down in rivulets made with a fine brush. This removes paint from the dark base layer, exposing the bare canvas beneath. Innes wished to create the impression of 'discovering' pre-existing forms rather than simply creating marks on the canvas. Hovering in the dark, the ambiguous stains suggest something natural and elemental, a state between solid and void.
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title:Six Identified Forms
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accession number:GMA 3670
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materials:Oil on canvas
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date created:1992
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measurements:220.00 x 190.00 cm (framed: 220.00 x 189.60 x 3.30 cm)
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credit line:Purchased (Knapping Fund) 1993
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copyright:© The Artist
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photographer:Antonia Reeve
Callum Innes
Callum Innes
Innes was born in Edinburgh and studied at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, and at Edinburgh College of Art. Following a Scottish Arts Council residency in Amsterdam in 1987, Innes began to reduce the figurative content in his work. The 'Identified Forms' paintings, begun in 1990, are his first major…