19 facts about Karl Benjamin

Karl J. Benjamin (December 29, 1925 – July 26, 2012) was an American painter of animate geometric abstractions, who rose to fame in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and once produced a critically established body of feign that explores a enormous array of color relationships. Working quietly at his house in Claremont, CA, he developed a rich vocabulary of colors and hard-edge shapes in masterful compositions of tightly balanced repose or high-spirited energy. At next intuitive and systematic, the player is, in the words of critic Christopher Knight, “a colorist of good wit and inventiveness.”