Volume 53, Number 20 · December 21, 2006
Journey from 'Nebraska'
By Richard Dorment
Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective
Catalog of the exhibition by Gary Garrels
Museum of Modern Art, 330 pp., $65.00
Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, October 29, 2006–January 15, 2007
In Brice Marden's fifteen-foot-long horizontal frieze The Muses a skein of muted green, gray, white, and blue paint loops across a field of light celadon green. Painted between 1991 and 1993, The Muses evokes a procession of the nine daughters of Zeus as it might have been carved on the pediment of a Greek temple—except that Marden doesn't depict the divinities, he conjures up their aura. As the eye tries to follow the intersecting tendrils of alternately transparent and opaque paint, nine vertical columns somehow emerge from the ground while at the same time remaining embedded in it.
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