Untitled (red abstraction)

Isolde Baumgart

The viscosity process allows the printing of several colors in one printing rather than having to re-ink the matrix for each color. Baumgart teamed an explosive combination of red and ice blue to create her image. Being in the dark as to what the artist had in mind, one is completely free to interpret the image. Thinking large, the image could relate to the solar activity of our sun but, thinking small, the image could be a closeup of a red Dahlia releasing pollen. The textural ice-blue color resembles an exquisite glaze on a ceramic pot.