In describing her art, Louise Nevelson has written: “I do not belong to any movement. As my work is related to the present time, it is bound to be related to that of others, consciously or not” Her art may be more closely related to her collections of African art, American farm tools, architectural elements, and diverse other fragments of the past and her attraction to the art and architecture of pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America. Nevelson has a penchant for rectilinear format in which shapes and patterns, rhythms and accents, tend toward repetition and read in narrative fashion. Together with her use of such “abstract” non-hues as black, white,.
