The 1940s, Geometric Abstraction

Coulon adopted a style of twisting lines forming serpentine networks that spilled out of the frame through a surprising allover effect. The intentionally washed-out colors reverberate with silent grief the loss of his brother in 1944. Coulon met Caroline Garabadian: the colorist slumbering within him awoke, encouraged by a brighter-looking future. Color began generating light, a major component of his painting.