31.5.11

across sunset

Mallowy red in the night sky tonight, just before dark, brilliantly offset by what can only be described as a stripe of pistachio green.  I can think of any number of abstract painters who might have longed to re-create such a juxtaposition -- it was gone within seconds.1


Kenneth Noland, Across Center (1966) 2

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                                            1  William Boyd, Any Human Heart, (Penguin, 2010), 456.  First published 2002.
                                            2  Twenty feet across, according to Rosalind Krauss in her early 1966 essay, "Allusion and 
                                            Illusion in Donald Judd," reprinted in Perpetual Inventory (MIT Press, 2010), 99-100. 

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