RED
Interpretation of the RED canvas
The RED canvas interprets the global and diverse character of General Motors
The interpretation does not represent General Motors, but only the artist's point of view.
The orange-red structure left refers to General Motor's former headquarters on Grand Boulevard in Detroit. The more dominant structure right, to the current Detroit headquarters, the Renaissance Center. Both sites are included, to give tribute to the long history of the company and its upcoming 100th anniversary.
There are pink, purple, brown, white, yellow and orange shapes throughout the painting surrounding the buildings, leading into the distance, swirling to a big circular bluish shape in the background.
The shapes and their different color symbolize the many people of diverse ethnic and cultural heritage that have been working at General Motors, will be working with the company and have reached to the furthest places on the globe, doing business and interacting with other people.
This representation of people reoccur in each painting. It's a common thread connecting all four canvases, emphasizing that the company seemed to the artist, to be very much a product of many individual brains and hearts working together for the improvement of life for many more.