Artwork Title: Tet

Tet, 1958

Morris Louis

Artwork Title: TetArtwork Title: Tet
Tet is a painting composed of four fan-like stains of blues, greens, violets, and yellows. The colors converge and slide into each other, giving them the qualities of liquid. The pools at the bottom of the painting reveal the artist’s method and process; the colors have forged deltas originating from these concentrated areas of watered down pigment. Louis used gravity to manipulate the thinned paint, resulting in these streams and fans of color. ...Louis’ paintings are divided into several groups, Tet belonging to the Veils II series. Louis used his staining technique throughout his short career, and his ability to mix both “muddiness and density” allow individual pigments to be simultaneously highlighted and muted within the same canvas.... Perhaps the reason Louis’s Tet was so successful was because of the variation in pigment which allowed the colors to mix as well as stand out. Louis used this quality in his works in... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_(Morris_Louis_painting)]
94 x 152 in
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