Painting on Paper by Abel Vazquez: Green Abstract

A tall white form with two small eyes, bristling with blue strokes and entirely unembarrassed.

This painting on paper, Green Abstract, is by Abel Vazquez, made ca. 1991 in mixed media on archival paper. Many modern painters borrowed from the bold, simplified forms of folk and so-called primitive art, reducing a figure to a few shapes and lines. A long, rounded white shape rises from a blue base, split down the middle by a dark line and framed by short blue dashes. Two half-green circles sit at its foot. Behind it, fine looping scribbles of green and ochre fill the upper field above a horizon line. It is 20 inches wide and 26 high.

Abstract, technically.