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<\/a><\/p>\nMy wish for the coming year: to clear our eyes.\u00a0 To see with feeling again.\u00a0\u00a0 To not just see broad strokes, cartoonish outlines, the wild and wooly, but to see deep.\u00a0 See beyond. From the other side of the RISD Museum gallery, a casual viewer will say- woh, it’s a black painting!\u00a0 Get closer to that Ad Reinhart beauty and you see how sumptuous and rich a single color is.\u00a0 There’s not a straight black stroke on the canvas.\u00a0 The black is all blended and spliced with blue, with red, melding to a super saturation of the kind of blue-black hair the comic strip heros used to have. \u00a0\u00a0It draws you into worlds beyond worlds – and it’s one of my favorite paintings in the gallery.<\/p>\n
Outside the gallery is a white-ish cafe, Cafe Pearl. \u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/35168.jpg\")
The flash neon lettering against an eggshell wall, a touch of milk foam lifts in a white cup on a marble tray.\u00a0 The contrasts are delicious for the contrast conceived differently.\u00a0 What is white but an array of variations that can go into the infinite.\u00a0 An array of associations.\u00a0 Black and white– It’s not a racial point, although it could be.<\/p>\n
It could be a plea to go beyond ideology, simplicity, black and white. It could be what Gloucester says to King Lear after being blinded: “I see it feelingly.” \u00a0See deep. \u00a0Go with new eyes into the New Year.<\/p>\n
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