Healed Scar 1946

Tihamer Gyarmathy made this painting, "Healed Scar," with colour and geometric form. I can almost feel him shifting those rectangles of lush greens and blues around. What might he have been thinking as he laid down those strokes? Maybe each square is like a little world, bumping up against its neighbors, coexisting, pushing back. See how he scratches thin lines across the surface, connecting one zone to another? A bit like Cy Twombly in his mark-making process. I imagine Gyarmathy working intuitively, maybe even a bit obsessively, to find some sense of balance or harmony. How does the artist bring into being new arrangements? I am asking myself the same question when I am making my own paintings. In abstract art, there is a feeling of endless possibilities, both for the artist and also for us viewers. In the end, abstraction embraces ambiguity and uncertainty.