Fresh Start

Spring semester starts today for me. Here are a few classic white art works to help symbolize a fresh start (even white can be reinvented):

Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist Composition: White on White. 1918. Oil on canvas, 31 1/4 x 31 1/4" . 1935 (photo by Nathan Abels)Robert Rauschenberg, 1951

Wolfgang Laib, Milk stone, 1980
marble and milk
2.6 (h) x 91.9 (w) x 74.2 (d) cm

Tom Friedman, 1,000 Hours of Staring, 1992-97
stare on paper
32 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.

B. Anderson "Dark Forest Series"

Kasimir Malevich, "Black Square", Oil on Canvas, 1915

I stumbled onto B. Anderson's photography yesterday and I'm a sucker for photography that is related to or inspired by painting (and vice versa). B. Anderson is a Canadian photographer whose "dark forest series - 2005" was especially interesting to me. The statement for the series reads, "This series was first inspired by Russian artist Kasimir Malevich's 1915 painting, "Black Square". The thick, cracked black paint that showed the white canvas underneath made the viewer crave to see the representation that may be shwoing in those cracks. In fact the painting's purpose was to reduce the figurative process to the point where it cancelled itself out."

B. Anderson images from "dark forest series - 2005"

White-out

We have the first real cold front/snow storm blowing in tonight, and in preparation I've compiled some nice white-on-white compositions in no particular order:

"Form-22-3-07 - Noon" by Klængur GunnarssonRudolph Stingel, Untitled
Styrofoam, 2000

Kazimir Malevich. (Russian, born Ukraine. 1878-1935). Suprematist Composition: White on White. 1918. Oil on canvas, 31 1/4 x 31 1/4"
Robert Rauschenberg, "White Paintings" 1951

Robert Ryman, "Surface Veil I", 1970. Oil and blue chalk on linen, 143 15/16 x 144 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Panza Collection.