Now take your iron on transfer paper and print out
a big black rectangle large enough to fit your traced head in.
For us, this served three purposes: 1) getting
the big black rectangle out of sight when you first walk into our home, 2) making it easier to watch TV when it's light out (it was across from our big front windows), and 3) hopefully making it so we spent more time conversing and reading rather than watching TV.
For art lovers, many of whom drift down the street from the Menil Collection, the chapel is the place to see Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk - the big sculpture in the outdoor reflecting pond - and the 14 paintings by Mark Rothko that, depending on how you look at them: a) are hardly anything but
big black rectangles; b) foretold the painter's suicide; c) were Rothko's crowning achievement; or d) any or all of the above.
Not exact matches
Some
big,
black rectangles.
It is the fabulous balance of red and white squares in a Malevich gouache, or the glowing sheaves of fluorescent tubes in a Dan Flavin sculpture; it is Hélio Oiticica's
black and white
rectangles swing - dancing across a painted board, and Sophie Taeuber - Arp's cross-stitch embroidery of circles and triangles holding hands, as it seems, with a
big scarlet square.
The sense of deepening silence that Bandau's
black watercolors evoke brings to mind the
big stacks of felt
rectangles that Joseph Beuys made, intending to give silence tangible form.
Black CouchBlack Marble TileBlack
Rectangle Pendant LampFrameless
Big MirrorGlass Shower RoomWhite Ceiling