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“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Eye is the First Circle, Lee Krasner’s epic 1960 painting and an eponymous documentary on women abstract impressionists from the mid 20th century, borrows from an essay called Circles, written in 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In that text, Emerson rethinks philosophical assumptions about space and perception, arguing for the capacity of personal vision to expand the world, literally and metaphorically, by situating perception as a driving force in an endless, fluid universe in constant becoming. Krasner demonstrated that, as with many women working in abstraction and gestural painting, her methods and conceptual approach embraced this sense of vision as a new way to remake the world around her.
In the exhibition Circles, organized by Pangée, works from the 1930s and 40s by Remedios Varo sketch out some of the real and imaginary spaces that held the social imagination of the era. Varo’s…
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“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Eye is the First Circle, Lee Krasner’s epic 1960 painting and an eponymous documentary on women abstract impressionists from the mid 20th century, borrows from an essay called Circles, written in 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In that text, Emerson rethinks philosophical assumptions about space and perception, arguing for the capacity of personal vision to expand the world, literally and metaphorically, by situating perception as a driving force in an endless, fluid universe in constant becoming. Krasner demonstrated that, as with many women working in abstraction and gestural painting, her methods and conceptual approach embraced this sense of vision as a new way to remake the world around her.
In the exhibition Circles, organized by Pangée, works from the 1930s and 40s by Remedios Varo sketch out some of the real and imaginary spaces that held the social imagination of the era. Varo’s…
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