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Persian Series #10
UNITED STATES · 2000

Persian Series #10

Stan Brakhage
abstract color optical illusion figure-ground relationship light and shadow geometric abstraction
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Synopsis

"Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The resolve of these themes is a combination of "amalgams" and "ghosts" at one in interplay, and then dark slashed spaces with "webs" of white, webbed spaces on white and, finally, solarization of colored forms - midst which the frame-line rises from bottom

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