Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible
Paul Klee
Agnes Martin, Untitled #9, 2003
(more Agnes Martin)
Showing posts with label infinity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infinity. Show all posts
2013/03/11
2013/01/13
Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry X
The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful
are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the
appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.
Sol LeWitt
John Latham, Full Stop, 1961, Acrylic on canvas
2011/09/22
Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry VIII
Now, however long a time may pass, according to the eternal laws governing
the combinations of this eternal play of repetition, all configurations
which have previously existed on this earth must yet meet, attract,
repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again
Heinrich Heine
Jasper Johns, White Target, 1957
Jannis Kounellis, no title, 1999 (Etching on paper)
2011/08/04
Visible - Invisible IV
Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.
Martin Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? 1929
Ed Ruscha, Your Space #1, 2006
2011/06/27
Visible - Invisible III
The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it
with any clarity you must prune and prune.
Italo Calvino (from: If on a Winter's Night A Traveller)
Luke Elwes, Refugia 2006 (oil on linen)
2011/06/09
Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry VII
The World is Bound With Secret Knots - Athanasius Kicher
Laura Splan, machine embroidered lace based on the influenza virus
Barbara Mungenast, Kreis #2, 2006
Sheila Gallagher, Sea Urchin Smoke Print, 2009
2011/05/12
Artist - Hilma af Klint (1862-1944)
I found this artist while looking for new pictures for the Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry series. Hilma af Klint was a swedish artist who was born in 1862 and died in 1944. She is concidered one of the first abstract painters together with Mondrian, Malevich and Kandinsky. I immediately liked the strong colors and her use of forms. They remind me a lot of alchemistic illustrations.
If you want to read more about Hilma af Klint, I recommend this article , from Sally O’Reilly in frieze.
frieze has a whole issue from the end of last year about the connection between art and spirituality, which you can find here. It contains another very interesting article that mentions her work, titled Soul Searching - The complex relationship between science and the spirit – and how to represent it written by Mark Pilkington
2011/03/07
Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry VI
Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts
Mary Judge, Oculus Series
Siobhan Liddell, Untitled, 2009
Max Ernst, Birth of a Galaxy, 1969
2011/02/03
Visible - Invisible II
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
Miya Ando
2010/12/16
Ruth Asawa
"When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth." -- Ruth Asawa
Ruth Asawa, Star (galvanized wire), 1960
2010/10/28
Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry V
Time is the substance from which I am made.
Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river;
it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger;
it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
Laura Battle, Time Piece
Günther Uecker
2010/10/27
Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry IV
Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
Trichodina pediculus
Burning Man 2010
Somewhere in Saudi Arabia (via Google Earth)
2010/09/22
2010/06/17
Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry III
Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern
for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth
Marston Morse
Damien Hirst, Psalm Print: Exaudi, Domine (diamond dust), 2009
The Hermaphrodite
Denis Maurice, Scale Model for the Cupola of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
2010/05/22
2010/05/07
Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry II
Overcoming the Infinite
Tiny amoeba shell (picture from National Geographic Magazine)
Katina Kamatson, From Nine Flowers Series
Kirra Jamison, Not even i can save you
2010/04/24
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