Who was the forgotten artist and theorist Emily Noyes Vanderpoel? - South London Gallery
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In 1902, American artist and writer Emily Noyes Vanderpoel published Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color. This surprisingly modern book, given the date it was published, combines science with art. Vanderpoel used gridded diagrams to analyse the colour composition of everyday objects, from ceramics and carpets to flowers and paintings. Each study broke its subject into a structured, geometric form. The results look shockingly similar to modern abstraction and contemporary data visualisation. Despite being made decades before, her work reminds us of Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers.
