Wig-Wam 1991

Piero Dorazio made this lively painting titled, *Wig-Wam*, with vibrant colors and straight lines – it’s like a party on canvas! I imagine Dorazio layering these squares one by one, each a little different, dancing on top of that warm red ground. The colors feel like pure joy, and those lines give it all a zingy energy. Does this painting make you think of Josef Albers, or what? Look at how each color sings against the red, like the deep blue square and how it seems to vibrate. It's all so carefully considered, yet feels spontaneous. What was he thinking when he made it? Painters are always talking to each other, even across time. Dorazio took the ideas of color and form, and made something totally his own. It reminds us that painting is always an exchange of ideas, and a way of seeing the world in new and exciting ways.