Which way is yellow stripe moving!

Barnett Newman
Yellow Edge c. 1968

http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=36083 - image

acrylic on canvas
238.4 x 193.2 cm
Gift of Annalee Newman, New York, 1990
National Gallery of Canada (no. 35591)

Barrett Newman 1905 – 1970

Now I wouldn't have thought to ask: Which way is yellow stripe moving!

Deep thought!

Is the yellow stripe being pushed off the canvas by the black or is the yellow stripe pushing the black off the canvas?

That’s exactly what a group of students were learning about when I walked into the gallery. Too Bad I never got to sit in on the whole lecture!

The Demented

I’m a big fan of demented art forms.
reaching into the dark corners at the bottom of the soul
the mysterious
the twisted
the movement
the distorted emotions
bizarre
broken
deep
dark
grabbing
hidden
alive… let it out and one can easily be attracted to the art form - yearning to understand, who want to learn to touch and feel their own, to agree, who continue to want to find a part of themselves who seem lost somewhere within the demented work of art you show (my favourite form: music)

..that’s not to say I prefer it all the time, the most beautiful natural art is a woman’s body.