Durchdringung von vier verschränkten Farbgruppen 1970

Richard Paul Lohse’s “Durchdringung von vier verschränkten Farbgruppen” is made up of interlocking blocks of color. I can see him building this up, color by color, working out the overall pattern. I'm thinking, as I look at it, about the conversation between Josef Albers and the Bauhaus, and later artists exploring color and form as a language. The colors – reds, greens, blues – they seem so flat, right? But look again. There’s a depth, a vibration. What's really cool here is how Lohse took some very basic elements and made something dynamic. It’s all about the relationships, how one color affects the other, how the shapes push and pull. It reminds me that the simplest moves can be the most powerful. I think Lohse gets that, too. It's like we're all just trying to figure things out, one color, one shape at a time.