Tingle Sebastiaan Knot paperback book covers and media

paperback book covers and media that permeated mid-century popular culture

Joan Mitchell and Georges Mathieu

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The tension of overlapping foreground shapes and the contrary background treatment is accentuated by the high-key yellow color that pushes the composition forward toward the viewer

Freeman tries to merge random gestures and idiosyncratic shapes with a controlled and reductive abstract language

Tingle Sebastiaan Knot paperback book covers and mediaThe threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a transparency is created that allows the viewer to enter through the lines onto the painted surface. The titles of each series can be interpreted as emotional, psychological and physical conditions.