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A student of Joseph Albers at Yale University, Richard Anuszkiewicz extended his mentor’s formalist approach to art but with an even greater experimental attitude about color. As with Albers’s Homage to the Square, the dimensions of the square in the center of Anuszkiewicz’s Hot Pink Square are predicated on the picture plane. This harmonious relationship lends the composition a natural, even “organic” quality despite its geometric character. Carefully calibrating his palette for maximum effect, Anuszkiewicz began by painting a light lime-green ground layer, over which he very delicately executed a network of bright pink lines. These lines coalesce like a halo at the iconic square, which the painter rendered using a slightly darker pink. The painter derived his somewhat strident palette from the complementary pairing of red and green, hues that sit opposite one another on the color wheel. The optical effects of Anuszkiewicz’s art aligned his work with Op Art of the 1970s.
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