Page 11 - Floors AZU

The “floor paintings” that Maria van Elk designed for the floors on the ground floor are very
impressive. In these designs she was inspired, as far as the form was concerned, by the crossings
of two arches in the roof of the public space. The passage of invading daylight has been
determinative for the colors.

Cool, greyish blue in the morning
Warm yellow in the afternoon
Dark blue-violet in the evening

Text (fragment): Hans Lutz
“You and Culture” – Art and the AZU: Humanisation of the sickness factory.
Utrechts Nieuwsblad NZC, Friday October 27th 1986

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