Karl Benjamin

Karl J. Benjamin (December 29, 1925 – July 26, 2012) was an American painter of living geometric abstractions, who rose to fame in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and bearing in mind produced a critically acclaimed body of sham that explores a Big array of color relationships. Working quietly at his home in Claremont, CA, he developed a wealthy vocabulary of colors and hard-edge shapes in masterful compositions of tightly balanced repose or high-spirited energy. At taking into account intuitive and systematic, the artist is, in the words of critic Christopher Knight, "a colorist of good wit and inventiveness."