2 Brought to bear on our
eye by subtle colour gradations of mauve, grey, blue or
brown, his colour field becomes charged through a strategic introduction of condensed areas of darker or lighter hue, bringing the work closer to Klee's
ideal of «exactitude winged by intuition».3 Despite the artist's quest
for total abstraction, all Gaitonde's seemingly non-objective works have elements of unevenness and suggestion, which tend toward figuration.