Painting on Paper by Abel Vazquez: Abstract

Two profiles face left, cut from the same jigsaw of plum, teal and rust.

This abstract painting on paper is by Abel Vazquez, made ca. 1991 in pastel and ink on archival paper. Cubism taught painters to break faces and objects into flat, overlapping planes, an approach that has fed abstraction ever since. Dark ink lines divide the sheet into angular panels, and within them two stylized heads in profile emerge, along with an arched form at upper right. Each panel is filled with crosshatched pastel in purples, blues, greens and terracotta. It is 27.5 inches wide and 19.75 high.

Faces, provided one squints in the right direction.