Friday, August 23, 2024

Lyonel Feininger - Edged Spaces, 1954

A study in flatness, compression of depth, two dimensions represented in two dimensions, rendering a planar perspective, how pale and washed-out colors enhance an illusion of flatness that isn't an illusion...

The adventure of course is to stare at this image until the illusion of flatness "springs" into an illusion of three dimensions, whereupon Feininger's title "Edged Spaces" is authenticated.

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