Abstraction
Paris 1949
Social Drama
Form and Color
Rhythm and Lyricism
Holistic Significance
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The
social drama has its parallels in a composition, "Red with Black
Horizontals." The feelings are defused at first but, upon reflection, describe a
complex of light and dark values which move in and out but are unified by the strong
horizontal black planes. A complex and dynamic ensemble with unity out of multiplicity has
been created. Do these analogies not resemble our life in relation to all things which
infringe upon it simultaneously, of that which entices and fails? It is a moment of a
painter's life as well as a moment of our civilization, with the constraints, dangers and
hopes which it brings us. next >> |

Red with Black Horizontals.
Acrylic on Canvas
1962
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