A rectilinear design, as minimal as an Ad Reinhardt, is built up of ghostly brushstrokes, visible in the right light and changing with perspective.Ĭorse is described as an artist's artist. The White Light series embodies and subverts minimalism. You can buy them on Amazon ($49.97 for a 10-pound bag ) What's left is subjectivity, a "white" painting that changes asĬontemporary glass microbeads. As used in paint, the refraction is diffuse, all but eliminating The light is reflected (twice, off the back side of the bead) and refracted for a prismatic dispersion of colors. In Corse's paintings the glass beads function like the water droplets in an atmospheric Brocken. Manuel de Arellano, Virgin of Guadalupe, 1691.LACMA The glory is conjectured to have been an inspiration for halos and gold-rayed holy figures bursting through clouds, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe. The Christian West likewise saw it as holy or sublime (when it didn't reject it as demonic). It's analyzed by Carl Jung and rates shout-outs in Coleridge, Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Nabokov, manga comics, and German heavy metal rock.Īs far back as 63 AD, visitors to China's Mount Emei recorded the same phenomenon, known as the Buddha light. The Brocken is described in Goethe's Faust, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. The Brocken Spectre consists of the climber's magnified shadow projected on a distant haze, in a nimbus of light. Brocken is the highest peak in Germany's Harz Mountains, long connected to witchcraft and Walpurgis Night (as in Hans Baldung Grien's Renaissance prints). Long before aviation the Brocken was known to mountain climbers. The Brocken is subjective and interactive, always centered on your position in the plane. The shadow will be surrounded by a luminous aura, including a tiny circular rainbow. If you're sitting in a window seat, and the sun is on the other side of the plane, it may cast the aircraft's shadow onto a misty cloudbank. The Brocken Spectre has had a considerable influence on art and literary history. These works, embodying an optical effect similar to that of the so-called Brocken Spectre, are central to LACMA's "MaryĬorse: A Survey in Light" (through Nov. She began using glass microspheres in her painting, inaugurating the "White Light" series in 1968. Corse investigated and learned that it was due to a newly marketed highway paint incorporating tiny glass beads. She noticed that the highway lines had become pearlescent in the evening light. One late 1960s evening Mary Corse was driving through Malibu, the sun behind her. Mary Corse, untitled (White Inner Band), 2003
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