Untitled 1959

Fernando García Ponce made this painting, with its patchwork of colour, sometime during his career. I can imagine him building it up square by square. What I love about this is how the thick, matte paint seems so deliberate and you can almost feel the artist pressing the paint onto the surface, feeling his way through the composition, one colour at a time. It’s like a conversation, or a construction, with each square a response to the one before. I wonder if he saw Josef Albers' work? There's a real calmness to the geometric structure, but then the colours push against that, creating a subtle tension that feels very human and considered. All painters are in conversation with one another. It's a lineage of creativity, constantly building on what came before and inspiring what comes next. Each work is another interpretation, another perspective.