"Light reveals to us the spirit and living soul of the world through colors."—Alma ThomasAutumn Leaves Fluttering in the Breeze illustrates Alma Thomas's passion for bold color and abstract compositions.
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"Light reveals to us the spirit and living soul of the world through colors."—Alma ThomasAutumn Leaves Fluttering in the Breeze illustrates Alma Thomas's passion for bold color and abstract compositions.
From her Georgia childhood on, Alma Thomas responded to sounds and sights of nature together. She started making abstract paintings in her early sixties, after thirty-five years of teaching in a junior high school and painting like a cubist-influenced realist. She evolved her own color principles based on musical composition. Like many twentieth-century artists, she was also interested in theories linking music and nature as a basis for abstract art. Inspired by intimate observation of flowers and trees, Thomas painted abstract patterns of light seen through foliage.
Source: Miranda McClintic. Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (New York and Washington, D.C.: Watson-Guptill Publications, in cooperation with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2001).
Pictured: Alma Thomas, 1891–1978, Autumn Leaves Fluttering in the Breeze, 1973, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 50 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of the artist.