Times of Day
Artist
Edward Giobbi
(American)
Date1981
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions60 in. (152.4 cm) diameter
ClassificationsPainting
Object numberUAC2715
DescriptionHighly abstract, “Times of Day” is an unusually round painting on canvas stretched over a round wooden frame. In spite of its large size, five feet in diameter, from a distance the piece captures the look of a work done with pastel crayons or colored pencils, an impressive feat rendered in oil paints. The composition gives the look of glass shards refracting colored light in all different directions; kaleidoscopic, as if looking down into the top of a faceted diamond. The outer ring of deep blue, cut through the middle with color, seems to closely represent the cross from night, into day, and back to night again with the burst of day making up the central refractive circle.
Born in 1926, Edward Giobbi is best known for his work in abstract expressionism in the New York art scene during the 1970’s and 1980’s, as well as for writing "Pleasures of the Good Earth" (1991). His work draws on influences in both classical and post-modern Italian art, having studied in Florence at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in the 1940s. He now resides in Katonah, New York.
Written by Alex Heath
