Colorforms in Colorspace No.2

Artist John Sennhauser (1907 - 1978)

Date1947

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions15 x 24 in.

ClassificationsOil Painting

Credit LineGift of the Estate of John Sennhauser

Object number1998.13

DescriptionIn 1943, he was employed by Hilla Rebay (1890-1967) who was both an abstract artist herself and a champion of modernism. She created the Solomon Guggenheim museum and collection. What inspired them was mysticism. Sennhauser referred to paintings such as "Colorforms" as embodying ideas that were subjective and universal. The city was reduced to "Lines, planes, forms, colors, rhythmically moving…intuitively conceived…intuitively born of life eternal. Plastic integration of form and space of body and spirit." Later, he often adopted a free Abstract Expressionism distinct from the structural approach of his earlier canvases of the 1940s.

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