Abstraction 1963Poster con cornice

Abstraction 1963 shows thick paint pressed and dragged across the surface, the kind of worked canvas Milton Resnick built up over long sessions. The marks are heavy and close, more about the weight of paint than any scene. Resnick was a first generation Abstract Expressionist, and the paint itself was the subject.

This framed poster hangs flat against the wall, so the paint texture reads as a surface of its own. A wood frame suits a room with wooden furniture, and the piece sits best at a height where your gaze lands on the middle of it.

In a dining room, hung on the wall opposite the table, the dense marks settle into a single field of tone while you eat. Your eye keeps returning to the heaviest patch of paint.