Chicago Murals
Artist
Ilya Bolotowsky
Year1976
Classification
painting
Medium
baked porcelain enamel on steel
DimensionsAA21-A: 14 × 45 ft. (426.7 × 1371.5 cm)
AA21-B: 10 × 60 ft. (304.8 × 1828.7 cm)
AA21-C: 10 × 42 ft. (304.8 × 1280.1 cm)
AA21-D: 10 × 42 ft. (304.8 × 1280.1 cm)
AA21-B: 10 × 60 ft. (304.8 × 1828.7 cm)
AA21-C: 10 × 42 ft. (304.8 × 1280.1 cm)
AA21-D: 10 × 42 ft. (304.8 × 1280.1 cm)
Credits
Commissioned through the Art in Architecture Program
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
His style of painting is known as Neo-Plasticism, a formal approach based on pure geometry and the use of primary colors. In these works, commissioned for the Social Security Administration's Great Lakes Program Center in Chicago, bands of bright colors stretching from one end of the canvas to the other have been created on panels of baked porcelain enamel on steel.
