This large, thinly-painted, vertically-oriented canvas features at its center a standing figure who looks directly out at the viewer. The figure's face is stark white. Its large eyes are rimmed with black, and its lips
painted a brilliant red. It is dressed in a bright green, loose fitting costume accented with deep blue ruffs at the cuffs and collar and wears a dark blue skull cap. This figure stands within a shallow stage of space
painted a variety of vivid hues ranging from yellow, red, orange, green, and blue and fractured with angular forms. Four additional figures frame the central figure dressed in green. Near the center of the top edge
of the composition, peering out at the viewer from behind the central figure, is a summarily suggested man wearing a top hat and monocle. In the upper right corner of the painting, a masked figure reminiscent of Harlequin
with his iconic diamond-pattern costume is partially visible. Three-quarters of the right edge of the painting is dominated by a red, devil-type figure whose back is turned to the viewer and whose body is cropped by
the painting's edge. Crouching at the lower left corner is a hunch-backed, crooked-nosed figure dressed in a mauve/purple/lilac-colored costume and wearing a white, cone-shaped hat. The upper left corner of the composition
is filled with multi-colored, abstract, chevron-shaped forms.
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Albert Bloch is an artist of international and local importance. Associated with the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) while living in Munich, he later served as the head of the Department of
Painting and Drawing at the University of Kansas. The Green Domino, painted in Munich, reveals Bloch’s passion for the expressive powers of simplified forms and intense color. The curious figures who occupy this brightly
colored, prismatically fractured space are based on characters from 16th- and 17th-century Italian improvisational comedic theatre. The vivid central figure, after which the painting is titled, also had contemporary
connections. It pays tribute to a renowned singer who performed at a popular cabaret, and may also honor a Russian dancer who, like Bloch, was a member of the Blue Rider circle.
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