Beau Soleil #7

2010 - Painting (Painting)

Stephen Beal


Beau Soleil #7 ’s title (translated as Beautiful Sun) gives a good sense of its effect. By virtue of a grid of dots, slightly different in size and placement, a subtle shimmering is created. In readily showing its effect as an image of light, the work exists between abstraction and representation—and perhaps points to the folly of such a distinction—rows and columns of spots become the dawn breaking through thick morning air.


Stephen Beal is a painter and the current president of California College of the Arts. His paintings are all-over patterns, resembling textiles or enlarged reproductions of printing technologies. In this sense, they seem to offer a bridge between Roy Lichtenstein’s hand-painted Ben-Day dots and modernist paintings’ dissolution of the distinction between figure and ground. However, Beal’s handling of paint gives his works a much more painterly quality than the crisp op and pop art his work initially resembles.


Colors:



Related works sharing similar palette

Untitled, (Basel lens flare 5950, 6198, 7497)
© » KADIST

Jordan Kantor

2009

Lens Flare and the series Untitled Basel Lens Flare (6168, 5950, 7497) were part of a solo project by the artist presented at ArtBasel in 2009...

Happy Birthday to the “Worst Masterpiece”
© » ARTSJOURNAL

Happy Birthday to the “Worst Masterpiece” | Unanswered Question Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar February 12 marks the 100 th birthday of Rhapsody in Blue ...

Bernard Gaube — Hunimalité
© » SLASH PARIS

Bernard Gaube — Hunimalité — L’ahah Griset — Exposition — Slash Paris Connexion Newsletter Twitter Facebook Bernard Gaube — Hunimalité — L’ahah Griset — Exposition — Slash Paris Français English Accueil Événements Artistes Lieux Magazine Vidéos Retour Bernard Gaube — Hunimalité Exposition Peinture À venir Bernard Gaube, Hunimalité, 2017, 46x37 cm...

Monsters’ Ink: A Fiend’s Diary & Heather
© » ARTS EQUATOR

Monsters' Ink: A Fiend’s Diary & Heather | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Tuckys Photography December 2, 2019 By Nabilah Said (1,500 words, 7-minute read) Spoiler Alert: The following contains major spoilers for the shows A Fiend’s Diary and Heather...

Taiwan WMD - Uranium
© » KADIST

James T. Hong

2012

Taiwan WMD (Taiwan and Weapons of Mass Destruction) is part of a long-term research started in early 2010 on the history and aftermath effects of Japanese biological and chemical warfare in China during WWII, as well as the unknown history of Taiwan’s nuclear program...

Whites for Sale
© » KADIST

Dread Scott

2022

In conjunction with his first NFT sale of White Male Dread Scott made and circulated a poster titled Whites For Sale ...

Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Protests over Marcos-sponsored play; the Spaniard in Singapore films
© » ARTS EQUATOR

Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Protests over Marcos-sponsored play; the Spaniard in Singapore films | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar The Star/Azhar Mahfof September 11, 2019 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...

Frequencies of Tradition film screenings
© » KADIST

Frequencies of Tradition, Monthly film screenings at The Roxie Dates: Wednesdays, April 20, May 18, June 15, July 13, 2022, 6:45 pm (doors open 6:15 pm*) Location: Little Roxie Theatre, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Fiona Tan, Ascent (2016), 80:00 mins Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 6:45 pm (doors open 6:15 pm) Ascent (2016) reflects on Japan’s Mount Fuji and its great significance to the country and its people...

Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile
© » ARTS EQUATOR

Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 The first known image of the crocodile, shot in 1887 at the mouth of the Serangoon River...

Being and Becoming: Of Femininities in the Malay World Through 50 Images (Seminars)
© » ARTS EQUATOR

Being and Becoming: Of Femininities in the Malay World Through 50 Images (Seminars) | ArtsEquator Skip to content A series of four seminars was presented by researchers behind Being and Becoming: Of Femininities in the Malay World Through 50 Images...

I can’t believe we are still protesting
© » KADIST

Wong Wai Yin

2021

Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...

Announcing Creative Time HQ, A New Gathering Space Rooted in the Cultural Rebelliousness of Downtown NYC
© » CREATIVETIME

Announcing Creative Time HQ, A New Gathering Space Rooted in the Cultural Rebelliousness of Downtown NYC - Creative Time Announcing Creative Time HQ, A New Gathering Space Rooted in the Cultural Rebelliousness of Downtown NYC October 25th, 2023 Tweet Email Creative Time’s flagship community space for politically engaged artists in the Lower East Side will debut with public programs designed by Art.coop (NEW YORK, NY — September 26, 2023) — Creative Time is excited to announce Creative Time HQ (CTHQ) , the organization’s new gathering space rooted in the legacy of art and activism in the Lower East Side, officially opens this month...

Ponderosa Pine IV
© » KADIST

Rodney Graham

1991

Ponderosa Pine IV belongs to a series of large-scale photographs of trees taken by Graham and depicts a particular species that live in Northern California...

Adam Carr
© » KADIST

Adam Carr (born in 1981 Chester, UK) is an independent Curator and writer who is currently based in London and Paris...

The Fifth Quarter
© » KADIST

Toby Ziegler

2005

The Fifth Quarter might have taken its mysterious inspiration from the eponymous Stephen King story collated into the Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection...

Christie’s to Offer $40 M. Rothko Previously in Bunny Mellon Collection - via ARTnews
© » LARRY'S LIST

One of artist’s final few works is coming to market again after seven years of being held privately....

Peau de chagrin
© » KADIST

Gaëlle Choisne

2016

The average human has approximately 2 squared meters of skin...

In pictures: focus on Caribbean artists
© » THEARTNEWSPER

In pictures: focus on Caribbean artists Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature In pictures: focus on Caribbean artists María Elena Ortiz, curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, picks her favourite works at Art Basel in Miami Beach Alexander Morrison 9 December 2023 Share April Bey, COLONIAL SWAG: Not Conceited, CONVINCED! (2023) © Liliana Mora María Elena Ortiz is a trailblazing curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (the Modern), but she also has close ties to South Florida...

These are the Emerging Female Artists to Collect This Women's History Month - via House Beautiful
© » LARRY'S LIST

In honor of Women's History Month, support some female artists—whose work is available online....