Vol. 10 · Touchstones

Feeling has a lineage.

Idea and artifactActive

§1 · Register

Artists and makers who worked below the surface: in the spiritual, the subconscious and the raw psychological canvas.

Table 10-A

RefNameWorkWhat it carries
T-01Yves KleinInternational Klein BlueOne colour, held as a whole environment.
T-02Luis BarragánCasa Barragán, Mexico CityColour and wall as emotion.
T-03Axel VervoordtKanaal, WijnegemAge, shadow and grain, kept still.
T-04Sir John SoaneSir John Soane’s Museum, LondonLight from above; a collection arranged as a mind.
T-05Mark RothkoThe Rothko Chapel, HoustonColour built to hold a room in silence.
T-06Gustav KlimtThe gold periodGold as atmosphere.
T-07C. G. JungThe Red BookImages from the unconscious, drawn by hand.
T-08Cy TwomblyThe blackboard paintingsMark-making as memory.
T-09Wassily KandinskyConcerning the Spiritual in ArtColour as sound.
T-10Henri MatisseThe cut-outsColour at the scale of a room.
T-11Ernest HemingwayA Moveable FeastOne true sentence.