More yellow, less green 1989

This is a painting by Carmen Herrera, called 'More yellow, less green', and it feels to me like a conversation, a back-and-forth between colors. I imagine Herrera, with her steady hand and sharp eye, carefully laying down these blocks of color, each one playing off the other. That yellow, so bright it almost hums, pushing against the cool, quiet green. It's a dance of shapes and tones, a delicate balance achieved through trial and error. I'm thinking about other painters like Josef Albers or Barnett Newman, but Herrera brings her own unique voice to this conversation. She invites us to slow down, to really see the subtle shifts and relationships between these colors. In the end it's a reminder that painting is a conversation across time.