ART–SYS–NOV

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Material Intelligence

Color as structure

ART–SYS–NOV

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Color as structure

ART–SYS–NOV

Color as structure

Index Code:

ART–SYS–NOV

Orgin:

Los Angeles, USA / New York, USA

Field Notes:

color as structure · architecture as canvas · wall as rhythm

Defining Moment:

Early 1960s — color as architecture; palette became architecture

David Novros

(

b. 1941

)

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Novros built a world where color shapes space.

His fresco-like panels fuse painting and wall — structure rendered in hue.

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In his world, pigment constructs silence.

Structural Focus

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In David Novros’s work, this approach appears where mural painting integrates surface and architecture through scale.

Position

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In David Novros’s work, this approach appears where mural painting integrates surface and architecture through scale.

Chromatic Fields

Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Reduction clarifies form through repetition, scale, and restraint.

Post-War Abstraction

Abstraction responds to rupture through scale, gesture, and structure.

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Geometry as empathy

Helen Frankenthaler

color as landscape

In Dialogue