February 19, 2009
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Graphic Design Notes (review)
A Sunrise
for Sunrise
“If we open any tract– Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art or The Non-Objective World, for instance– we will find that Mondrian and Malevich are not discussing canvas or pigment or graphite or any other form of matter. They are talking about Being or Mind or Spirit. From their point of view, the grid is a staircase to the Universal, and they are not interested in what happens below in the Concrete.” –Rosalind Krauss, “Grids”Yesterday’s entry featured a rather simple-minded example from Krauss of how the ninefold square (said to be a symbol of Apollo)
may be used to create a graphic design– a Greek cross, which appears also in crossword puzzles:
Illustration by
Paul Rand
(born Peretz Rosenbaum)A more sophisticated example
of the ninefold square
in graphic design:“That old Jew
gave me this here.”
– A Flag for Sunrise
