Farid text paintings

Compositional elements migrate from the drawings to Haddad’s large-scale “transitional” color field paintings (all Untitled, 1977). The elements include the horizons that break up the canvas, lines, cross grids, triangles. Eruditely painted, the gradient color fields are reminiscent of Op Art, the brushwork of Impressionism, the works are structural, colors and shapes are manipulated with extreme precision. Haddad’s sensibility for color and composition lends his works an unparalleled poetic quality. The brilliance of the work is in the viewer’s experience of it, the challenge it poses to one’s perception and perspective.

- Text written by Sarah Rifky