Artist #13: Al Held

Bright colors are heavily used in Al's work. There are a lot of line structures that move around in front and behind one another, creating this maze of line that gives the work a sense of depth and motion. Some paintings have various shapes as well, like triangles and circles. I like the color choices he used for his structures; they are very distinct from one another with almost no blending at all. He uses the shapes to create form and suggest a sense of space without needing to express what the objects actually are. The painting shown here exemplifies this idea of various shapes, each in a distinct color from one another to give them their own location in the painting and imply a sense of depth.