- Title
- Untitled
- Date Made
- 1984
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- Three panels: 111 x 216 in. (281.94 x 548.64 cm) overall
- Accession Number
- M.85.22a-c
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Curatorial Notes
An interest in both light and technology inspired Norman Zammitt’s signature paintings. Starting in the early 1970s, he created abstractions on canvas based purely on color, which he executed using computer-generated logarithms. Zammitt would weigh precise amounts of different colors on a scale, using five basic colors to create a total of 48 unique shades, which he then painted in order. These paintings, including Untitled, hover between landscape and pure abstraction while relying on scientific exactitude.
Exhibition label: Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021, Carol S. Eliel.
- Selected Bibliography
- Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.
