Journey into light
1967
- Medium
- oil on plywood, wood
- Measurements
- (a-b) 154.0 × 232.0 cm (overall)
- Place/s of Execution
- Sydney, New South Wales
- Inscription
- (a) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen l.r.: Audette 67
inscribed (vertically) in pencil on reverse u.l.: Audette
inscribed (diagonally) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.l.: Audette / 1967
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.l.: JOURNey into Light I / No I / DYPTYCH
inscribed (vertically) in pencil and fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.l.: Play of Light (crossed out) II (line above and below II) (crossed out)
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.: UP TOP UP
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.: (upward arrow) JOURNey into / LIGHT / DIPTYCH PANEL / No I
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.r.: A55
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.r.: Audette / 1967 (upward arrow)
(b) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.l.: A56 / A56 / JOURNEY / INTO LIGHT / PANEL No 2 (upward arrow) / DIPTYCH
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.l.: UP TOP UP / (upward arrow)
inscribed (diagonally) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.r.: Audette / 1967
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.r.: Journey into Light / No 2 (No 2 underlined) / DIPTYCH
inscribed (diagonally) (inverted) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse l.l.: Audette / 1967 - Accession Number
- 2015.721.a-b
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the artist through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2015
© Yvonne Audette/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia - Gallery location
- Contemporary Art gallery
Level 3, NGV International - About this work
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In 1953 Yvonne Audette travelled to New York, where she became involved in the Abstract Expressionism movement, meeting artists and writers such as Willem de Kooning and Clement Greenberg. Unlike the spontaneous marks of many of her contemporaries, Audette advanced a more nuanced approach to abstraction, allowing compositions to develop intuitively over months, or even years, as she added, subtracted and combined forms. Journey into light was originally conceived as two separate paintings; however, Audette paired them as a diptych after their compositions evolved and their aesthetic synergy became apparent.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Nonrepresentational Art
- Subjects (specific)
- colours (hues or tints) layers (components) lines (artistic concept) rectangles shape (form attribute) square (shape) triangles (polygons)
