A Study of Mid-Century Modern art…
My inspiration was the artist Josef Albers, particularly his Interaction of Color work.
In this painting (c. 1950) I love the possibilities for exploring color with overlapping squares & rectangles. Learning from this composition, the top row of shapes share the same baseline, the bottom row shares a different, but a common baseline, and the two rows share parts of themselves. You’ll notice that the overlapping areas are all the same hue and lend a translucent effect.
In my own study piece I worked with the colors to get pleasing interactions while using a Mid-Century Modern color palette. I added and subtracted elements to achieve a happy balance, not strictly following Albers’s layout but exploring alternatives.
Then the happiness was just too much and the hands started waving and the feet started tapping, and can a sister get an amen? Amen!
“High Five?”
A Study of Mid-Century Modern art…
and because sometimes art should be fun.
Mixed Media on Paper
approx 10.5″ x 14″
© deb davies thorkelson 2015
And because I couldn’t resist… another:
{The creation and introduction of FLatOwL ®}
© deb davies thorkelson 2015
This is very good. At first I thought Mondrian, but yours has more… life and movement?
🙂
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Thanks so much – it did take on a whimsical look, so I went with it. Definitely different for me.
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Well, it’s good work. 🙂
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Amen!!! 😀 I love the happiness in this painting Deb.
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Very modern Debra, I think Joseph Albers would find these paintings intriguing. I still have my Color Therory book by Albers from art school.
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I like your version very much better.
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