Karl Benjamin
Karl Stanley Benjamin (December 29, 1925 – July 26, 2012) was an
American painter of vibrant geometric abstractions, who rose to fame in 1959 as one of four
Los Angeles–based Abstract Classicists and subsequently produced a critically acclaimed body of work that explores a vast array of color relationships. Working quietly at his home in
Claremont, California, he developed a rich vocabulary of colors and hard-edge shapes in masterful compositions of tightly balanced repose or high-spirited energy. At once intuitive and systematic, the artist was, in the words of critic
Christopher Knight, "a colorist of great wit and inventiveness."
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