STUART DAVIS

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture

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Stuart Davis (1892-1964) was an American Modernist painter, best known for his brilliant pure colours, abstractions of buildings, street scenes, and landscapes.

Stuart’s compositions seem to be of abstract collage of geometrical shapes. Many of his paintings have strong drawn frames, but he often breached the rectangularity of the image. He worked in 2D planes, using flat extensive colour to define the space, calling it Color-Space Compositions.

Stuart once said ‘My concept of form is very simple and is based on the assumption that space is continuous and that matter is discontinuous.’  

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