In the first installment of our Office Art series, we take a look at Large Red, by Richard Smith, a monochromatic etching from 1976. If you look closely, you'll see two parallelograms sort of floating at an angle.
After performing some research (ahem, Googling), we learn that Richard Smith is British and was born in 1931. He taught at various universities, and in 1976, he settled in New York. He even has an artist's statement:
By depicting everyday interior environment and some of the routines, rituals, scenarios and happenings that occur, or may occur in these spaces, I hope to place things often taken for granted in circumstances that focus our attention on them; often to consider their vulnerabilities.
My abstraction of form and colour is used to emphasize the real and imagined effect of light and draw attention to specific areas of the painting. The intensity of colour used is also for these aims, as well as its seductive qualities. The compositions in my paintings are intended to create a state of tension.
Well, there you have it. Richard Smith, we give you the highest honor in our proprietary three-point rating system - A: Not bad - really brightens up the place.
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