Jules Olitski (1922 - 2007) was a Russian-born American artist associated with Colour Field painting in the 1960s. He is known for his technique of layering blankets of coloured spray on his canvases, giving them an ethereal, atmospheric appearance. In the 1970s, Olitski began to use acrylic polymers to create thick impasto paintings, of which God Wisdom is an intriguing example of.