Joseph is best known for his two - colour paintings, those of the 1960s being boldly geometric, relying on primary colours and optical effects; for Herrera the more lyrical abstraction of her early paintings gave way to a focus
on pure geometry.
Not exact matches
This is a
pure matter of
geometry, which you can verify by using a device of the painters for measuring the picture size of an object: Take a pencil in your fist, hold it at arm's length, and mark off
on it with your thumb so much space as is necessary to cover the object.
A few colorful highlights worth a closer look include the feather - light finger exercise No. 2526 (especially the racing matte black vertical strokes that alternate with bold orange bars) and the paler, lighter black strokes bookending No. 941,
pure cursive plays
on stage - like
geometry backed by an abstract version of what could be a theater set by Raoul Dufy (including Dufy's aqua as a border).
Inspired by a broad range of influences from Arte Povera to classical
geometry, his work focuses
on reducing structures to their
purest and most elemental forms.