Eduardo Paolozzi

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005), British sculptor, collagist, print maker, filmmaker and writer. I found a lot of his collages and sculptures are very interesting.

no title, screen print on paper, 1967

This work maybe is not the best to represent Paolozzi. I chose this one because I like the color and the way how he put them together. The color is very striking. Different colors together can create different effects. I think he must deeply understand the color theory. By using colors in different ways, he successfully create a lot of layers on a flat surface. We can clearly see there are 8 layers at the background and the rectangle is on top of them. There are two diagonals in the rectangle and two half diagonals. We can see black is at the bottom, then gold, then blue. I am not quite sure about the red though. By slightly change the direction of the lines, visually we can see some sections are lower than others. For example the two green section in the rectangle. One is lower than the other one. The purple triangle looks like  on top of the red. Then a gold line beside creates a balance on this section. At the right side, he created lots of small squares. I feel these squares calm the whole image down and also add balance to it. I like this work, looks simple, but the way to put the colour together is very complicated.  There must be a lot of thought behind it.