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Moskowitz created his first work with a window shade in England in 1959: “I thought it [the window shade] had a lot of character and history. … It had weathered fifty or sixty years. I wanted to show that in some way.” Back in New York he continued to create collage paintings with window shades. They would make the artist’s name well known along with those of his famous colleagues, including Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
“For Moskowitz, the window shades had a definite formal meaning,” comments art historian Ned Rifkin. “The selected object brings with it as subject matter its function, as an unrolled screen providing privacy from the world outside the window.” The visual qualities of the shapes, materials, and brushwork let the work’s character oscillate between formal abstraction and physical sensuality.
BJ, 2013
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