Color Consulting –
a Survey of International Color Design

Tony DeBlasi: Frozen Music

Tony DeBlasi’s long career in art has gravitated toward a greater visual openness with an awareness of art history and, in particular, the color-inspired works of the Impressionists and fauves. He describes his present work as “constructed paintings,” having a calligraphic presence and a highly involving methodology of design and working process (Figs. 138 and 139). In these constructed paintings, strips of wood are placed at different distances from the wall and painted variously in bright, deep hues, suggesting brushstrokes of freewheeling yet controlled energy. This energy has no rectangle to contain it as a conventional painting would, yet its intricacies imply a hidden order—even if that order is chaos repeated until the repetition pattern becomes the order.

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138. Pop Goes the Weasel, 1988, by Tony DeBlasi. Acrylic polymer emulsion on wood, 60” x 102” x 3 ¾”. Mr. DeBlasi’s work possesses both the rapidity of a sketch and the greater solidity of of the collapsed rectangle, the busted frame, which the artist refers to in many of his works. (Courtesy of Louis K. Meisel gallery, New York; photograph by Steve Lopez.)

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138. Pop Goes the Weasel, 1988, by Tony DeBlasi. Acrylic polymer emulsion on wood, 60” x 102” x 3 ¾”. Mr. DeBlasi’s work possesses both the rapidity of a sketch and the greater solidity of of the collapsed rectangle, the busted frame, which the artist refers to in many of his works. (Courtesy of Louis K. Meisel gallery, New York; photograph by Steve Lopez.)