Smaller and mid-sized works like New Mexico, If You Want Blood and Morning invite us to peer
over precipices into an undulating abyss of rich textures and color.
Not exact matches
The roar of rushing water that builds louder as you approach; the sheer power as a river plunges
over the
precipice and downwards
into a deep pool below.
About fifteen miles uphill from the town of Catskill on the Hudson River, Kaaterskill creek drops dramatically
over a
precipice and
into a basin that forms a hidden pool, then falls again
over a second tier before continuing to tumble a bit more gently down towards the Hudson River.
The slashing attack of Krasner's painting finds stiff echoes in Brice Marden's «6 (Course)» (1987 - 88), which immediately follows it, introducing a room in which we see Marden's linear compositions turn fluid, though not nearly as fluid as a Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997) from 1983 - done at or
over the
precipice of his descent
into senile dementia.
We seem oblivious to the danger — unaware how close we may be to a situation in which a catastrophic slip becomes practically unavoidable, a slip where we suddenly lose all control and are pulled
into a torrential stream that hurls us
over a
precipice to our demise.