OBS-019
Field Notes on Scale and Surface
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Clyfford Still Museum — Vertical Weight
OBS-019
Atlas Index:
OBS-019
Origin:
Denver, USA
Era:
Modern
Themes / Lineage:
Field Notes:
vertical weight shaping interior atmosphere
Quiet Modernism appears here as mass organized through vertical restraint.

Clyfford Still Museum — Vertical Weight

Field Notes on Scale and Surface

Vertical elements extend upward with sustained density.

Lateral movement is resisted.

Weight remains concentrated.

What’s being held?
Although the form rises, its mass does not disperse as it ascends. Weight remains concentrated along the vertical. What continues is gravity redirected rather than released.

Although the form rises, its mass does not disperse as it ascends.

Weight remains concentrated along the vertical.

What continues is gravity redirected rather than released.

Structural Concepts

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In Dialogue

Barnett Newman
scale as presence
Brice Marden
Color as time
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