Compositie met huis 1995

Harrie Gerritz created this color silkscreen titled "Composition with House" sometime in his career. Looking at the image, I think about the ‘what ifs’… What if the artist went for a walk and was struck by the way a house sat oddly in the landscape, a pink blob of domesticity? What if the house was a feeling? The paint has a kind of matte flatness, without much depth. It’s so interesting to see the different areas of color bumping up against each other. The artist isn’t trying to trick us with illusion, but simply placing one color next to another. I keep thinking about how one shape leads to another, intuitively felt, and revised to make something out of nothing. There is a lineage between artists that continues to stretch back and forward through time. Each generation learns from, copies, and steals from those who came before them. You can sense that conversation taking place here.