Jeremy Moon (1934-1973)
Jeremy Moon was one of the most ambitious abstract painters of the 1960s. Self-taught, he occupied a significant position among those British painters committed to hard-edged geometric abstraction, where monochromatic fields of radiant color reinforce the flatness of the picture surface. Moon’s approach was both cerebral and visual, maintaining a constant focus on the dynamic relationships between shape, form and colour.
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About
Born in 1934, Jeremy Moon studied law at Cambridge, and worked in advertising in London before becoming an artist there in 1961. He developed a distinctive abstract language defined by flat areas of clean, bright colour that became progressively geometric in form. Moon was one of the first painters to develop the shaped canvas in Britain, in tandem with adopting the new acrylic paints on a large scale.
