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Persian Series #11
UNITED STATES · 2000

Persian Series #11

Stan Brakhage
abstract expressionism color field painting painterly cinema visual abstraction chromatic exploration
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Synopsis

Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating black-space/white-space exists as a back-drop for slashes and curves of color - reds and blues shifting to red-blue-green, then yellow, etc. slashed in black.

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