1617 print depicts nothingness prior to the universe

[beschizza]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/10/09/1617-print-depicts-nothingness.html

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[Beanolini]

If you’re more into “the experience of pure non-objectivity in the white emptiness of a liberated nothing”, try Malevich’s Black Square:

[MaiqTheLiar]

or…

R.R. 1951-1953

[Grey_Devil]

I thought that print was depicting the color of my heart.

[FGD135]

[MrShiv]

See also Ad Reinhardt.

[Grey_Devil]

We can also go the complete opposite with white paintings

https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/98.308.A-C

[FGD135]

[lorq]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DS1YYtQ_LLY

[KipTW]

The cool thing is it works no matter which way you hold it, or even if you close your eyes. Eat your heart out, Escher!

[KipTW]

I like his early stuff in particular.

But this is cool too, from PM in 1946:

[MrShiv]

These are great! I had no idea. “Frau Line”, LOL

[VoxInSpatium]

Even darker. Nothingness prior to the universe…at night. In a coal mine.

[scottchilcote]

I had this extremely cool black pigment I was going to put here, but some bozo has a patent.

[Chaz1]

[FGD135]

[anon85905360]

C͏l̸̡̕os̷̶͟e ͟e̕͠n̨̧͝o͝͡ų̕g̀h̵̶̕.̡

[Beanolini]

@scottchilcote

some bozo has a patent.

There is a non-exclusive substitute for Vantablack, available to anyone who isn’t Anish Kapoor, from the guy who also sells the ‘pinkest pink’.