Copyright: Verena Loewensberg,Fair Use
This untitled work was made by Verena Loewensberg, and it’s all about color, pure and simple, put down in these perfect horizontal bands. It's a painting, but it feels so flat, so smooth, like color just floating there. Look at how each color touches the next, making hard edges that still somehow vibrate. The greens at the bottom almost feel like they’re breathing, you know? And then that skinny orange line, popping like a little fire. The surface is opaque. You can't see any brushstrokes, which makes it feel almost machine-made. Each band seems like it has been thought through, layered with intention. Loewensberg was one of the few women exploring concrete art in this period. She was part of an ongoing conversation about the relationship of color to feeling. Think of Josef Albers, and how he explored similar territory, but Loewensberg has a cooler sensibility, more aloof, but beautiful, nonetheless. Art’s not about answers, is it? It’s about keeping the questions alive.
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