Triangular Fugue III 1965

This is John Dowell's "Triangular Fugue III," and it’s a dance of form and color, isn’t it? You can almost feel the artist's hand moving, making marks, shifting the composition through trial and intuition. I see that big, red, triangular shape dominating the canvas. It is like a flag, but softened, blurred at the edges. I imagine Dowell thinking about how that red interacts with the pale yellow background. The white space below almost looks like a blank page ready to be filled with more stories. Those scribbled lines and shapes floating around give a sense of movement, like musical notes scattered across a score. It reminds me of Twombly, maybe, or even Klee. Artists are always in conversation, aren’t they? It’s all so ambiguous and open-ended. This isn’t about answers, but about possibilities. Dowell invites us to participate in his process, to make our own meaning from the gestures he has set in motion.