Color and "Music" to Brighten the Day, Courtesy Painter Jules Olitski

It has rained for 4 days straight--ugh. My mood is suffering, so I thought I'd post a few images from one of my favorite painters, Jules Olitski. He's known for his work in color field painting, which is one of my favorite styles.

I could post image after image and never get enough. The colors evoke so many emotions for me--a sense of calm or anger, or perhaps just overall energy and exuberance.

Some people don't understand color field painting--they think it's just coloring a piece of canvas, and that's it. For me, it's the emotions I sense in each work. Oftentimes when I look at a color field painting--I hear music! Just in my head, I hear a tone or a sound of some kind, which pulls me in further. No, I'm not crazy--it's a real phenomenon called synaesthesia, and it can take a variety of forms.

Olitski's web site doesn't really showcase what I consider his most well-known works. Like any great painter, his style and subject matter changed over time, and so if you lined up all his works, you might think, at first glance, that they were done by several different artists.

Hope these inspire (and maybe you'll even "hear" something!).