Harry Nadler Labyrinth II Series 1978

Harry Nadler Labyrinth II Series 1978 Harry Nadler was a geometric abstractionist, greatly influenced by French painters, Paul Cezanne and Piet Mondrian. His brushwork creates a sense of movement and a play of light within the confines of his geometric lines and forms. Nadler absorbed the paintings of his predecessors, adapting their motivating ideas in a search for meaning in his own work. After immersing himself in the sensuousness of paint quality and the richness of color relationships—as exemplified by Paul Cezanne, Archile Gorky, Richard Diebenkorn, and others—he found a greater need forgeometric structure in his paintings. Throughout his career, he combined this sensitivity of paint handling with geometry in order to create his unique vision of formal power and light. In late 1977-78, he returned to the square format after painting on the diagonal; the imagery became pictographic, and one of his old concerns reemerged: the issue of edges and the center. This was the beginning of