Transection #3, After Fra Angelico 1967

Clarence Holbrook Carter made this painting, "Transection #3, After Fra Angelico," with a very smooth surface. He's playing with these muted grays and then—bam!—that red box just pops. I imagine him, like, really thinking about Fra Angelico but then going totally sideways. What's with these little rectangles and the glowing halo? Is it a critique? An homage? Maybe he was thinking about repetition, or the way we make boxes for ourselves, and what we put inside. I’m drawn to the painting’s enigmatic quality and the implied tension between the mundane and the transcendent. It’s like Hopper meets some weird metaphysical puzzle. Painters, you know, we're always chatting with each other across time, pinching ideas, having arguments. Carter throws Fra Angelico into a blender and serves up something totally unexpected.