Constructivist optimism
Is it just me, or is there something thoroughly optimistic about the pattern I have been working with, once it is constructed in these colours?
Constructive Context, 2012, ink on paper, 6"x6"
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There’s a reason primary colors are so well liked…
zorgor
March 21, 2012 at 2:14 am
I thought they were more to be feared? (Who’s afraid of red yellow and blue?)!
Andy Parkinson
March 21, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Mmm. News to me.
zorgor
March 21, 2012 at 9:40 pm
Barnett Newman, Who’s Afraid…? http://pintura.aut.org/SearchProducto?Produnum=10625
Andy Parkinson
March 22, 2012 at 7:34 pm