Broad Strokes

The Museum of Contemporary Art brings together five local masters of abstraction.

A A A Comments By Michael Paglia Thursday, Jan 24 2002

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Wynne, who was born in 1922, studied as a teenager with Boardman Robinson at the defunct Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center School and has been exhibiting since 1948. Although he still paints, the work Payton chose dates back forty to fifty years.

Every Wynne here is superb, but a couple are even better than that. "November 22, 1963," an oil on linen from 1963, wasn't done to memorialize the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but painted earlier that same day. Wynne once pointed out to me how weird it is that the completely abstract piece suggests a crowd gathered around a fallen figure. Also great are "White Fusion" and "Shapes on Orange," both from 1959.

"Shapes on Orange," by Al Wynne, oil on linen.

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Payton has done it with 5 Abstract. It may only be January, but I'm sure I'm not just whistling Dixie when I say that it's definitely one of the most important exhibits of 2002 and, as such, a must-see for everyone.

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