Lord of the Rainbow 1976

Alice Baber painted "Lord of the Rainbow" with watercolors, creating a dance of light and color that feels both playful and profound. Baber’s way of layering these translucent colors—the way they bleed and blend— it's like she's chasing after a feeling, a fleeting moment of perception. Look closely and you’ll see how the shapes overlap, creating new hues, new possibilities. Take those strokes of blue, see how they melt into the yellows, creating a soft green? There is a conversation happening on the surface. This feels like a close cousin to Helen Frankenthaler’s soak-stain paintings, where color becomes both subject and substance. The beauty here lies not in perfection, but in the process, in the artist's willingness to let the paint do its thing. It reminds us that art, like life, is an experiment.