Red Room (Harmony in Red)

The large, olive-green wedge that drops from the upper left edge of Ocean Park #31 (1970; fig. 70) very quietly stirs a memory, eventually summoning up a grass-green wedge that rises at the left side of Henri Matisse’s Piano Lesson (1916; fig. 71). Then, looking around, we see...

~~Beginning in the 1880s, painters introduced color that did not represent visual reality. Turning away from materialism and what they often described as decadent urban society, these painters delved inside themselves for ways to express the values they held dear. Although disassociated from institutional religion, Paul Gauguin and...