The Nassau County Museum of Art’s exhibition, Seeing Red: Renoir to Warhol, explores the myriad meanings, connotations, and associations of this powerful color in art.
The museum exhibition includes Richard Anuszkiewicz and Joel Perlman. Expanding on this theme, the Loretta Howard Gallery showcases red compositions by Larry Bell, Cleve Gray, Robert Motherwell, David Row, and George Sugarman all of whom are masterful in their use of red.
As the museum's Curator, Franklin Hill Perrell notes, “evoking strong emotion, red can represent the human condition. Its myriad variations have come to signify authority as well as love, energy, and beauty. Red warns us of peril and commands us to stop, but it can also indicate purity and good fortune.”
The master of color theory Josef Albers wrote in 1963, “If one says ‘Red’ — the name of the color — and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.”