Painting by Onno Knuvers 31 Artworks Sold

Cube 1

Acrylic, Wood, Ready to hang

26cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 2.5cm (D)

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Artwork Description

This work stages a precise investigation of colour theory, form, and playful visual logic. A single planar surface is transformed into a convincing three‑dimensional cube through calibrated hue, value, and edge definition, producing an optical depth that reads simultaneously as painting and object. The composition balances symmetry, modular rhythm, and spatial tension, inviting prolonged viewing and active perceptual engagement. The result is a piece that functions as both a study in colour relationships and a sculptural statement about how painted surfaces can occupy space.

The piece draws on the reductive clarity of Piet Mondrian—the insistence on primary colour, grid logic, and compositional economy—while translating that language into a playful, saturated register associated with the Pop Art movement. The work also references the visual language of puzzles and games, notably the Rubik’s Cube, using the cube as an icon of combinatorial colour systems and interactive logic. Rather than literal homage, these influences are refracted: Mondrian’s structural rigor becomes modular geometry; Pop Art’s chroma and immediacy become bold, collectible surface.

This is a work about perception, modularity, and the materiality of paint as architecture.

Artist Bio

I love to draw and paint‚ to create characters‚ and to create stories and worlds for them to inhabit.

Onno was born in the Netherlands, grew up and studied art in New Zealand but since 2011 lives and creates art in Melbourne with his wife, daughter and a rabbit called Oliver.

Commissions

Onno's studio is in Melbourne‚ VIC