Sunny and brazen, orange arcs nest inside one another and close around a lens of pale, linen-toned ground, a turquoise band tracing the inner curve. Along the lower edge the orange breaks into teeth where the brush was dragged off the canvas still loaded. A dark hatch of fine strokes sits inside the lens, a yellow tick enters at the right, and the weave of the ground shows everywhere. The effect is as insistent as a road sign.
Sunny and brazen, orange arcs nest inside one another and close around a lens of pale, linen-toned ground, a turquoise band tracing the inner curve. Along the lower edge the orange breaks into teeth where the brush was dragged off the canvas still loaded. A dark hatch of fine strokes sits inside the lens, a yellow tick enters at the right, and the weave of the ground shows everywhere. The effect is as insistent as a road sign.
Orange and turquoise sit near opposite points of the colour wheel, and where the two bands run side by side the edge between them flickers. Teeth of paint hang from the lower arc. At the upper right a second comb of orange fans out, so the nesting is built from separate strokes laid one inside the other. A black drip falls at the right edge.
Nested colour is tested in Josef Albers's Homage to the Square, where squares of colour change one another's appearance. Here the nesting is made by brush arcs, and Roberto Caracciolo's edge between orange and turquoise wobbles with the hand.
