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richard meier is an american abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. he was born in newark, new jersey, in 1934. meier is a winner of the pritzker architecture prize in 1984. he has designed several iconic buildings including the barcelona museum of contemporary art, the getty center in los angeles, the high museum of art in atlanta, and san jose city hall. in 2018, some of meier's employees accused him of sexual assault, which led to him resigning from his firm in 2021.
A chart of richard meier's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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