Richard Anuszkiewicz’s Spring Chroma
I visited the Springfield Art Museum, and chose an abstract piece titled Spring Chroma. This piece was created by Richard Anuszkiewicz in 1975. Spring Chroma was in the “Creating an American Identity” exhibit. Although it was difficult to choose which piece I was going to write this paper on, this particular painting was very interesting to me. It was very similar to some works we viewed and discussed in class, and was also very different than any other painting in the gallery. Spring Chroma is a work in a series entitled Spectrals. Anuszkiewicz completed this series of works in the 1970s. There are four distinct colors present in this piece, including pink, blue, green, and orange. The colors are very vibrant and bright. They…show more content… While this is not a three-dimensional piece there seems to be texture. This is most likely an optical illusion due to the repetitive line work and vibrant colors. The shapes present in this piece are mostly rectangles that vary in size, thickness, and orientation. There are five thick, vertical rectangles in this piece, two orange and three pink. There are also six thin rectangles that lie on two edges of the painting as well as in between each thick rectangle. These thin rectangles are green and blue in color. The horizontal lines found in the work are similar to a ruler. They are uniformly spaced and repeat throughout the piece. This repeating pattern creates a rhythm that is appealing to the eye. The balance between unity and variety is not really achieved in this piece. It can be said that with the differing colors that do not form a pattern, the piece is not really unified. This variety exposes the opposition and contradiction in the piece. Therefore this piece falls under the Post-Modernism category. The exhibit was primarily a focus on abstract pieces created after
