Indian Composition 1942 - 1945

George Lovett Kingsland Morris made this ‘Indian Composition’ with oil paint. It’s pretty big, over five feet tall, and a little over four feet wide. Morris's marks have this way of constructing a new way of seeing the world. Look how he’s built it from all these different geometric planes. The paint application is so flat and smooth that it’s hard to see the hand of the artist. Instead of brushstrokes, it's more like a pristine surface, you know? I love the orange and purple shape right in the middle, like a little sun, drawing you in. It’s surrounded by these other geometric shapes, all fitting together like a puzzle. It reminds me a bit of Stuart Davis, maybe because of how the shapes interact with each other, kind of jazzy. Ultimately, there’s a lot of room for interpretation, and that's what makes it interesting, what makes art great.