"The painting should be monumental. In other words, larger than its dimensions."
Serge Poliakoff is a Russian artist affiliated with the École de Paris and the post-war abstract movements in Europe. Using bold splashes of color in non-figurative compositions, Poliakoff's paintings are characterized by nested puzzle arrangements. Like all artists of integral abstraction, Poliakoff explores the relationships between line and surface, background and form, color and light. The apparent formal unity of his works conceals a multiplicity of pictorial solutions. The concentration of colors, the vibration of matter, as well as the skillful arrangement of forms that balance each other in a contained energetic tension are all of critical importance. At the same time, the artist is the author of numerous works on paper, notably gouaches, but also tapestries and fabrics, stained glass windows, and ceramics, a testament to his cultivated taste for decorative art.