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Blue Color Field (2021) is a meditation in simplicity — a visual deep breath inside the Geometric Splendor Collection. Painted in acrylic on a 48 x 48 inch canvas, this piece speaks in a single voice: blue. But within that voice are echoes, overtones, vibrations. What seems like a uniform expanse begins to shift the longer you stay with it.

The concept of the color field is not new. Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman defined the genre with emotional expanses of red, black, and gold. In Blue Color Field, I pay homage to that lineage while gently breaking away. My blue isn’t transcendental — it’s intimate. It doesn’t soar. It holds.

There are no edges, no narrative forms — just hue and breath. The brushwork is visible but restrained, letting texture act as quiet voice rather than statement. The blue, deep and velvety, asks nothing from the viewer. It simply offers space: to feel, to rest, to reflect.

As a piece within the Geometric Splendor Collection, Blue Color Field balances the harder lines and constructs of other works with soft presence. It reminds us that geometry doesn’t always need to be angular. Sometimes, it can be immersive — like standing in a still room painted with sky.

This painting is not about being looked at. It’s about being with.

Ritu Raj | Contemporary Abstract Painter | Phoenix

Ritu Raj is a contemporary abstract painter based in Phoenix, Arizona, working mostly at scale — canvases of five to eight feet. His practice runs in two bodies: Abstract Inquiry, in oil and acrylic, and Organic Movement, which replaces the brush with thread, using gravity and viscosity as compositional instruments. More than 260 works, collected across the US, Europe and Asia. He is the author of the forthcoming The Shape of Seeing and The Unalgorithmic Self.

https://www.rituart.com/
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