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Chromatic Logic

Structure through improvisation

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Structure through improvisation

ART-STA-JAF

Structure through improvisation

Index Code:

ART-STA-JAF

Orgin:

United States

Field Notes:

color as spatial agent · structure without system · balance through interruption

Defining Moment:

1950s — move to Paris establishes a sustained abstract language built through color, line, and spatial play.

Shirley Jaffe

(

b. 1923 – d. 2016

)

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Shirley Jaffe builds a world where structure emerges through color and spatial interruption.

Forms collide and realign without hierarchy.

Difference is sustained through rhythm.

Adjustment holds as structure.

Structural Focus

Serial Difference

Repetition is used to register subtle variation. Meaning emerges through comparison rather than singular form.

In Shirley Jaffe’s work, difference is sustained through rhythmic adjustment rather than fixed system.

Position

Serial Difference

Repetition is used to register subtle variation. Meaning emerges through comparison rather than singular form.

In Shirley Jaffe’s work, difference is sustained through rhythmic adjustment rather than fixed system.

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.

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

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

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

No movement context — this work stands independently.

Structual Relations

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

Color as virtue

In Dialogue

Ellsworth Kelly

Color as structure

Border as light