Met and Moma Museum Collected Artist Yuri Kuper Seascape Painting Vintage Brutalist Minimalist Dark Modern

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Seascape acrylic painting on canvas by Metropolitan museum and MOMA collected artist Yuri Kuper (b. 1940) This textured representation of … Read more Seascape acrylic painting on canvas by Metropolitan museum and MOMA collected artist Yuri Kuper (b. 1940) This textured representation of a moody brutalist ocean at night evokes memories.
Museum collections:
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Library of Congress, Washington
Ministère de la Culture, Paris
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
National Gallery, Oslo
Uéno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Shirakaba Museum, Japon
Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulterbesitz, Berlin
Musée Pouchkine, Moscow
The Sainsbury Collection, University of Norwich
École d’Art, Boston
University of Chicago, Northern Illinois

For Yuri Kuper, "hypnosis" is not a mystical ritual, but a specific philosophy regarding how a viewer should interact with a painting. He famously stated: “The painting has to hypnotize, in the same way that the surface of the contemplated object hypnotized the painter."

Painting is 21.5 x 18 in with a hand painted frame half inch wide total size 22.5 x 19 inches See less