There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons--
That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
~ Emily Dickinson (No. 258)
Renowned Vancouver architect Arthur Erickson said of his favourite medium: "Concrete is the marble of the 20th century." His creations are anywhere from fascinating to confounding to starkly beautiful. But his contributions to this city, one socked-in by grey for much of the year, sometimes simply overwhelm.
It's the 21st century, is our future to remain grey?
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The Gray Areas of Jasper Johns
By Carol Vogel
February 3, 2008
ONLY one artwork hangs in Jasper Johns’s all-white Caribbean home here. It’s a nearly nine-foot-tall canvas in three sections: a harlequin pattern that cascades down on the right, a series of colored circles on the left, and a montage of gray encaustic brush strokes in the center. Two overlapping wooden slats are attached to the painting.
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