Haloportrait II (overstanding)
Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, 1960–66. Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, By exchange. 93.4239. © 2003 Estate of Ad Reinhardt/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_133A_1.html
What if we could touch, at least with a brand new language, that sur-surface that stands over words like Time, Love, Death, Art? We may feel that upper level, we may even know what the feeling is about, but still we cannot fully grasp it.
We may have under-stood those words, but when will we over-stand them?
posted by watchout at 11:34 AM
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http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/09/09/sidebar.spiegelman/cover.new.yorker.jpg
Reinhardts painting instantly reminded me of this New Yorker cover by Art Spiegelman (comics-artist, famous mostly by his "Maus, a survivors tale"
"Spiegelman's ghostly New Yorker cover"
By Todd Leopold
CNN
Thursday, September 9, 2004 Posted: 4:39 PM EDT (2039 GMT)
The 9/11 cover of The New Yorker, September 24, 2001 (contrast heightened for detail).
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Art Spiegelman's black-on-black September 11 New Yorker cover was actually a "side thought," he says.
"I was trying to fix something I thought was better," he says, holding up a poster depicting the towers covered in a black drape looming over the finely detailed prewar apartment blocks of a blue-sky downtown New York.
"[But] this was just wrong. ... So I was beginning to dim the sky down to gray and make the buildings gray ... and Francoise [Mouly, his wife and The New Yorker's arts editor] is saying 'This isn't working.'
"And I [thought] ... what's the least that could be said. So black on black," he recalls. "And then I thought that was one of my many temper tantrums and was going to get back to work, and Francoise said, 'No, you've got it. Let it go.' "
The other cover was eventually used for a book, "110 Stories."
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