Peter Halley

Peter Halley's work is all blocks of color, such as "Six Prisons in Color," 2004, posted below.

Unfortunately, I can not say that I'm a fan of this style of art. I do not stand the appeal of painting blocks of color, and it is not something that I would choose to decorate with. However, that is just my personal opinion.

For the piece posted above, Halley made an interesting choice with the colors. The tones he used together are all rather discordant and jarring to the eye. The vibrance of the colors makes each of the six main blocks look like they are misaligned with each other, like they are all slightly off-kilter. While I mentally know that this is not the case, the aesthetics of it make it difficult to see what I know to be true.