Emerald Pulse: A Dialogue Between Geometric Calm and Abstract Energy
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2025
Collection: Organic Movement
In Emerald Pulse, Ritu Raj creates a striking juxtaposition between geometric solidity and the restless energy of abstraction. At the center of the composition sits a bold, rectangular field of emerald green layered over a darker band of midnight blue, a form that feels both architectural and contemplative. This structure provides a moment of stillness, a grounding presence, as if one were looking at a doorway into another dimension.
Surrounding this quiet geometry, however, is a swirl of untamed energy. Shades of violet, crimson, and white sweep across the canvas in textured arcs and feathered strokes, suggesting movement, breath, and even resistance. The tension between these two modes — the measured calm of the rectangle and the expressive chaos of the gestural marks — creates the painting’s pulse, its living rhythm.
In dialogue with contemporary painters, Emerald Pulse shares affinities with Gerhard Richter’s exploration of abstraction through layered gestures and blocks of color, as well as Mark Bradford’s collaged works that juxtapose structural order with restless surface energy. The balance of color field and motion also recalls the meditative intensity of Mark Rothko’s chromatic blocks, though here Raj interrupts the transcendental quiet with an insistence on movement and disruption.
What emerges is a painting that speaks to the human condition — the push and pull between stability and change, between grounding and transformation. The green rectangle can be read as a core of resilience or hope, while the surging violet and crimson arcs embody the unpredictability of life.
Emerald Pulse is not just a visual experience but an emotional one, inviting viewers to stand before it and feel the tension and harmony that make up our lived reality.
