ArtGram.Corona

Everything reaches but one. The reading that holds back is the whole point — this is the painting without that, and what it declines is louder than the five things it does.

20 paintings · reaches on Contrast, Form, Abstraction, Color Range and Palette · holds on Texture

The most typical Corona in the catalog: Passage of the Blue. Closest of the 20 to the shape’s own mean on all six.

Where it sits

Texture: 4.3 above the catalog median of 3.0
Contrast: 3.8 above the catalog median of 3.5
Form: 3.9 above the catalog median of 3.0
Abstraction: 4.1 above the catalog median of 2.6
Color Range: 3.0 below the catalog median of 3.0
Palette: 3.5 below the catalog median of 4.0

Means across all 20. The signature is what holds for the shape as a whole, not a rule every painting obeys: a named silhouette cutting through a continuum, not a category with a boundary.

What it is next to

Let one more reading reach and it becomes Bloom, and let one drop back and it becomes Quatrefoil, Sheaf or Spray. Two paintings a single step apart are related in a way you can see, which is what makes the thirteen a language rather than a list.