This compelling geometric abstract painting of contemporary artist José Ricardo Contreras within his celebrated Composition with Tools series. Executed with a sophisticated mixed media blend of acrylic and oil paint on canvas, the unique studio masterpiece subverts digital editing iconographies into an autonomous visual experience. The structured layout anchors a powerful perspective replicating a classic software color selection window: the main square field handles a pristine sfumato gradient washing from soft white into a rich saturated deep blue, featuring a clean white targeted circle indicator near the bottom left corner. This environment is balanced on the right edge by a parallel vertical stripe holding a hard-edge multicolored spectrum scale under clean studio lighting.
The “Composition with Tools” series engages observers with quirky and playful truisms, gently leading them toward deeper reflections. Jose Ricardo Contreras, after long hours using digital editing tools, presents these tools as images themselves, highlighting their hidden aesthetics. This generates associations and similarities, awakening their sensitive potential with a humor parallel to their constant search for new perspectives on everyday life.
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Geometric Abstract Painting - Blue tone cube, 2022. By Jose Ricardo Contreras
Blue tone cube, 2022
From The Composition with Tools series
Acrylic, oil paint, on Canvas
Dimensions: 19.6 H x 15.7 W x 0.7 D in.
Mounted on a stretcher
José Ricardo Contreras González, a native of Colombia, holds a Master of Arts from the Universidad Industrial in Santander. As a result of his work, he has held solo and group exhibitions in Colombia and Spain. Currently, its process is guided by two investigations that are conducted in parallel. The first reflects on the mechanisms of representation of reality, the images of flow, and their implications, and the second investigates the landscape and migration processes, using the review of domestic archives, literature, and fieldwork as a resource.

















