Red Petals 1967

Sam Gilliam made "Red Petals" with paint, and what's cool is how it feels like you're watching a painting come into being. It’s like witnessing a beautiful, fiery sunset. The colors! They're not just sitting there, they're kind of swimming and bleeding into each other, right? Look at that area in the middle, how the reds deepen and swirl. It’s like he’s coaxing the color into existence, letting it find its own form. There's something really organic about the way the pigment moves. It's thin, like watercolor, but it's still got that punch. It makes me think of Helen Frankenthaler, how she poured and stained the canvas. There's that same sense of freedom. Ultimately, "Red Petals" isn’t just about a picture, it's a record of an action, a process. It reminds us that art is a conversation, an ongoing experiment.