Farbfelder 1976

Richard Paul Lohse made this grid of greens and yellows, and it looks like the kind of painting that comes into being slowly, square by square, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with him, imagining him making this piece. What was he thinking when he made it? I wonder if each square was a kind of meditation. The paint looks thin, almost like watercolor, and I imagine him carefully layering each square, letting the colors bleed into one another ever so slightly. This piece relates to the work of other painters who were interested in exploring the grid, like Agnes Martin and Sol LeWitt. Artists are always in conversation, exchanging ideas across time, inspiring one another's creativity. Painting is a form of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning.