Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

ABOUT THE WORK

A Luz painting has no volume, no sense of weight, no perspective, no charospcuro, no rich coloring, it is all flat and tends to be monochromatic to emphasized its linear strength. It has no purpose other than to please the artist’s visual logic. His art is not so much expressive as constructional, it delights in the abstract, mechanical , architectonic inventions, in geometric shapes and rhythms rather than in organic/ natural forms. Form is always simplified, reduced to bare bones. It was his ability to transcend the style of Impressionism, to go to the structure that lies behind visual appearance, and his magically delicate color harmonies. The point is that Luz reduces his subject to large, solid, uncomplicated masses because such forms are suggestive of eternal values. The art of Arturo Luz were described by Ray Albano as “cool, controlled” and as “exercises in aleatoriness and surface dynamics.” This process of repetition is Luz’ way of mastering his material — its potential and expressiveness.