Abstract Composition 1970

Ivan Marchuk painted this abstract composition with many lines, colors and gestures on a white ground. I think that Marchuk is going to town here! He’s gone wild. I love how he just keeps adding colors, line, shapes. It’s a real party. These shapes are kind of all over the place, and the colors are so cheerful, yet I am also drawn to the black triangles, which seem to give the painting some grounding. I wonder if he was thinking about how geometric shapes can add structure to a wild painting? The color reminds me of a sunny day, all yellows and blues, but also the deep red. The lines make me think of traffic, moving this way and that. I wonder what it might have been like to make this? What was he thinking when he made it? I feel happy when I look at it, it's so joyful and playful. Painters are constantly responding to each other across time, inspiring new ideas, new possibilities. The work is an open-ended invitation to interpretation and meaning-making.