Construction + Color
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The works in this section showcase the ways that color influences form and how printmakers have used geometric shapes and lines as the building blocks for larger constructions. Some of these images remain rooted in recognizable architectural structures and views. Others stem from the aesthetics that quote branding and the commercial world. Artists interested in exploring abstraction enter a more purely nonrepresentational realm and reference the gamut of colorful form from the op-art, constructivism, and minimalism art movements. In revealing and thematizing the fundamental formal components of art–namely, line, color, and shape–artists in this section call attention to the artifice of their practice as ultimately one of worldmaking, even if nonrepresentational, and to the relationship between art, vision, and optics. Together, these prints transport viewers to different parts of the world and time periods through artistic concepts of worldmaking as defined by the fundamental constructions of line, color, and form.

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