PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF A DISTINGUISHED LADY

ABOUT THE WORK

Bold, broad swathes of blue and white pigments, sliding upon the surface and space and colliding in a salvo of vertical and horizontal intersections - the volume of drama and gravity is incomparable. Romulo Olazo hurls thunderbolts of light. Olazo played transparency over opacity wherein the shrill, deep Parisian blues and greens jostled for space. In this spatial masterpiece, the Diaphanous screens are nearly obliterated, recoiling from the cacophony of deep - hued, electric colors. This canvas, together with the other untitled series became metaphors for art history’s contradictory, anarchistic expressions that undermine each other’s animating spirit