Addition Chromatique

1972

Addition Chromatique, 1972. Carlos Cruz-Diez (Venezuelan, 1923–2019). Color screenprint; image: 50.6 x 51.7 cm (19 15/16 x 20 3/8 in.); sheet: 62.5 x 62.7 cm (24 5/8 x 24 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund 1972.1127 © Artists Rights Society, (ARS), New York Carlos Cruz-Diez aligned himself with kinetic art, a movement that spread across Latin America in the decades after World War II. Rather than focusing on representation or abstraction, these artists used bright colors and eye-bending forms to suggest movement and engage the viewer through visual perception. In this print, Cruz-Diez layered and contrasted colored lines to suggest three-dimensional space. Like many Latin American artists associated with kinetic art, Carlos Cruz-Diez spent much of his career in Paris.