MORELLET, Francois

Though for most of his adult life the manager of a family factory, Morellet has been a prolific and consistent artist specializing in rationally derived, superficially simple, and yet awesomely clever geometric works that generate complex structures. Implicitly rejecting Mondrian's reliance upon intuition, Morellet has worked with systems, which are customarily announced in the titles of his pieces (e.g., 6 Canvases with a 5m Perimeter and a Horizontal Diagonal, 1973), and it follows that Morellet...