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  • Jeremy Moon 1934–73
  • Arabian Night [3/67], 1967
  • Acrylic on canvas
  • 2420 x 2785mm
  • Presented by Tate Members 2006
  • Tate © The estate of Jeremy Moon, courtesy Rocket Gallery, London
  • T12241
  • View work within Tate Collection
Jeremy Moon: Arabian Night [3/67]

© The estate of Jeremy Moon, courtesy Rocket Gallery, London

A key characteristic of Jeremy Moon's works is the creation of a sense of centrifugal motion revolving around a static central point of rest. In Arabian Night [3/67] the feeling of rotation is created by arms with stripes in different colours arranged around a central black triangle. The work is one of six paintings made in 1967 using a Y-shaped canvas. Moon began to experiment with shaped canvases in 1964 when he made a series of eight paintings on triangular supports. Although British artists such as Richard Smith and Joe Tilson had previously experimented with shaped supports, Moon's minimalist works are more akin to the hard-edged abstraction seen in the stripe paintings of the American artists Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland.

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