Kaleidoscope based on Silents, 1988, 1966, 1998 by Roy Newell

Roy Newell
Roy Newell was an American abstract painter. He was born in Manhattan's Lower East side on May 10, 1914 and died of cancer on November 22, 2006 in Manhattan. His paintings show great coloured rectangles in chromatic harmony. Source: Wikipedia, Roy Newell.

Geometric abstract art is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions

The Private Myth
Carolina Nitsch Project Room, 534 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Through March 13
By Roberta Smith. Published: February 11, 2010. Source: The New York Times

This exhibition will introduce many people to the vehement, transcendent geometry of Roy Newell, an all but unknown painter who died in 2006 at 92. It also expands the perimeters of the New York School with a solid, sudden jolt.

A friend of Abstract Expressionists like Franz Kline and Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Mr. Newell exhibited little during his lifetime and sold less, maintaining what can only be called a very low profile. He worked small, in oil on panels that averaged around 12 inches on a side, building up slabs of smoldering pinks, cerulean blues and Kelly greens. Suggestions of walls, rooms, doors, windows and paintings within paintings are visible, but tend to be overruled by the muscularity of the color shapes. Each has its own physical density; all are clamped in place by the concentrated buildup of paint, laid on in small, jabbing brush strokes. The tension is amazing. Read more at NYT.com

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