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Harold Krisel: Investigations
Harold Krisel came to abstraction early and personally: as a teenager in 1930s New York, he…
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Jean Dewasne: Color Motion
Jean Dewasne carried color blocking into industrial territory. Working in postwar Paris, he abandoned traditional paint…
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Carlos Rosales-Silva
Like Stuart Davis, Carlos Rosales-Silva builds his paintings from flat, interlocking blocks of solid color —…
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Alexander Calder: Color Play
Alexander Calder is best known for his mobiles, but his gouache paintings on paper reveal the…
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Stuart Davis: Color Blocking
Stuart Davis, one of the most inventive American modernists of the twentieth century, built his paintings…
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Muybridge & Marey: Motion Tracking
When photography learned to freeze what the eye couldn’t catch, painting took notice. By the early…
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Josef Albers: Desaturated
Josef Albers spent decades proving that a color’s brightness is never fixed — it shifts depending…
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da Vinci: Moving Water
Leonardo da Vinci treated turbulence as an engineering problem before he treated it as an image:…
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Duchamp: Motion Graphics
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) tackles the same problem as Balla’s dog,…
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Greek Vases: Animated Scenes
Greek vase painters had no way to blur a figure or freeze it mid-motion, so they…