Louise Nevelson was born in Kiev, Russia and moved to Rockland, Maine at the age of six. For Composition Nevelson photographed several of her wall sculptures, then using a photographic process burned each image onto a screen. The three or four screens were then each printed onto paper, layering over the others. The darkest areas were created by the most overlapping. The confused effect created by this method contrasts with the orderliness of the original sculptures. Her creative process was primarily intuitive and rarely involved advanced planning. Like the Abstract Expressionist's work, the viewer scans the work freely unencumbered by a focal point or central image.

 

 

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