November 18, 2003
Stuart Davis, painter
Stuart Davis' early painting career (1910-1930) produced 'ashcan school' images: gritty realistic social commentary. After a trip to Paris, Davis began to explore the power of color and shape. A synopsis from the Metropolitan Museum explains: " Report from Rockport is considered among Davis's most important canvases from the 1940s. It is a pivotal work, as it was the first in which he utilized his newly articulated "color-space" theory. Davis postulated that color could be used to indicate spatial relationships through its positioning next to other colors. Some colors advance, while others recede, which suggests the illusion of a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface."
image by Stuart Davis
