Homage to Milton Avery — Fine Art

Homage to Milton Avery - Sun-Box III - 1969 shows a stack of colour shapes that sit close together on the sheet. Theodoros Stamos built the picture from simple planes of sunlit colour. The marks stay broad and the edges stay firm on the fine art sheet.

The paper has a matte finish, so the colour planes keep their soft tone and no shine comes off under a lamp. A light frame on a dark wall lets the warm colour fields stay open. A dark frame on a pale wall tightens the shapes and holds the viewer.

On the dining room wall above the table, the stacked colour planes sit in a steady row. From the doorway the warm colours read as one block, and near the chair the firm edges of Theodoros Stamos hold the line.