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Brice Marden — Cold Mountain
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Brushstroke stretched into line line turns into field
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Structural Atmospheres
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Artist:
Brice Marden
Field Notes:
brush line • calligraphic • gesture
Quiet Modernism appears here as volume emerging from contour.

Contour as Volume

Brice Marden — Cold Mountain

Outline expands into spatial depth.

Edge thickens.

Volume emerges.

How does depth appear?
Contour is usually read as outline, but it does not stop at the edge. It expands and gains thickness. What persists is volume emerging from boundary.

Contour is usually read as outline, but it does not stop at the edge.

It expands and gains thickness.

What persists is volume emerging from boundary.

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Brice Marden
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