SIN TÍTULO CUADRÍPTICO 1970

This painting, "SIN TÍTULO CUADRÍPTICO", was made by Fernando García Ponce, and when I look at it I think, what a great title for an artwork! You can almost feel Ponce’s hand moving across the canvas, right? Laying down those bold blocks of blue, grey, and black. The paint looks kind of thick and juicy, doesn't it? Like he was really working it, pushing it around, maybe even scraping it off and starting again. I bet there are like, maybe, a million layers underneath. Look at the way those colors meet, those jagged edges in the black section. It's almost like he was wrestling with the paint, trying to find the right balance, the perfect tension. It's all angles and planes, a bit like early Cubism, but also totally its own thing. I bet Ponce was in conversation with a whole world of painters when he made this. They all are!