Art Theory Text with Color-Space Diagrams 1941

Editor: Here we have Stuart Davis’s "Art Theory Text with Color-Space Diagrams." The hand-written text and simple diagram feel very immediate. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It’s interesting to consider this in terms of Davis's broader artistic practice. The materiality here—paper, ink, the act of writing and drawing—reveals the artist's conceptual process. Davis seems to be dissecting the very foundations of how we perceive color relationships and how they are constructed. What does it suggest about artistic labor? Editor: It's fascinating to think about how he's breaking down the act of seeing into its component parts. I hadn't considered the labor involved. Thanks!