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Luis Martínez Pedro

Systems of Clarity

Color as rhythm

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Color as rhythm

Luis Martínez Pedro

ART–OTH–PED

Color as rhythm

Index Code:

ART–OTH–PED

Orgin:

Havana, Cuba

Field Notes:

color as rhythm · geometry as landscape · abstraction as calm

Defining Moment:

Early 1940s — water as abstraction; order clarified

Luis Martínez Pedro

(

1910–1989

)

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Martínez Pedro built a world of currents and calm.

His "Aguas Territoriales" translated landscape into rhythm, using blue and turquoise to map emotion through geometry.

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In his world, color flows like thought — clarity shaped by tide.

Structural Focus

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Luis Martínez Pedro’s work, this approach appears where luminous planes articulate interval.

Position

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Luis Martínez Pedro’s work, this approach appears where luminous planes articulate interval.

Chromatic Fields

Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

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.

Form is constructed through measurable, non-representational means.

Constructed form prioritizes system, function, and collective use.

Structual Relations

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

Precision as calm

Movement as order

In Dialogue

Tension as body

Color as virtue