User:David john rush

David John Rush, Chromatic Structuralist, known for his Geometric color painting that create illusions of colors that are not found in the color wheel, his manipulation of space, size and volume color create illusions of transparencies and after image memory color. His association with Hannes Beckmann let to the meeting of Josef Albers in 1967, it was then that Albers invited Rush to work with hin during that summer, this further led to the jouining of Ben Cunningham and Charles N. Smith in the Gestalt color theory study. Rush followed Beckmann at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art where he taught Color Theory from 1965-1971, He assisted Smith with the writing of "the Student Handbook of Color" published by Reinhold Corp, did all the color plates.Rush would go on after that to write "The Photchemistry of Vision" for Scientific America Magazine, but was not published. His work has been shown in several Museums, and he continues to paint after more than 50 years.