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Love Bytes

Today has been proclaimed Virtual Love Day in honor of online love and romance.

Today's abstract artwork by Irene Rice Pereira conjures the idea of love in our wired digital age!

Pereira was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1907. Her primary interests as a young woman were philosophy, poetry, and literature.

Ideas of light and space dominate Pereira's mature work. "Light comes from beyond—beyond the horizon—and permeates or saturates everything." Her later work is also emotionally more romantic. Colors in her paintings are symbolic. Yellow symbolizes east for her, blue means the sky, green represents the earth, and red suggests intensity of feeling. How does Heart of Flame illustrate her color theory?

Source: Andrew J. Crispo Gallery, "Irene Rice Pereira" exhibition catalogue, 1976.

Pictured: I. Rice Pereira, 1902–1971, Heart of Flame, n.d., oil, 55 7/8 x 51 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Max Robinson.