No. 15 / 20 · Movements, by Gastón Solís
Stillness in Color
post-war expressionism and the seated figure
San Francisco Museum of Art, Reserve Galleries · 1971

The painter has used three pigments, all of them industrial. Color is what the body produces when it has run out of speech. The yellow is the hour before the day has consented to begin. The red is the body's honest pigment, the one it carries inside itself and never displays except through the mediation of some other process. The blue is the distance the mind has traveled by the time the body has finished its work. There is no figure in the painting, strictly speaking. There is a disturbance in the field that the eye reads as a person.
Provenance
The artist’s studio, San Francisco; Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, by 1961; private collection, Berkeley, 1963–1988; lent to the San Francisco Museum of Art for Stillness in Color: Post-war Expressionism and the Seated Figure, 1948–1962, 1971–72; gift to the present collection, 1989.



















