{"id":101127,"date":"2016-08-03T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T18:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=101127"},"modified":"2016-08-04T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T16:02:56","slug":"visual-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/03\/visual-anarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Anarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The artist Michael Kidner died in 2009. In New York, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flowersgallery.com\/exhibitions\/view\/michael-kidner-works-on-paper\" target=\"_blank\">a new exhibition at Flowers Gallery celebrates his works on paper<\/a>\u00a0from the 1960s and 2000s, which found him experimenting with moire patterns, pentagons based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penrose_tiling\" target=\"_blank\">Penrose tiling<\/a>, and the geometrical\u00a0effects of light. \u201cI was curious about how the brain interpreted objects,\u201d he said in 1996. \u201cIt&#8217;s a black box and yet we seem to see colors and shapes, and it\u2019s all coming in little chemico-electrical signals along nerves. So, whatever\u2019s happening in there is incredibly abstract, and at one point I was thinking of these patterns more as maybe something that goes on inside the black box.\u201d\u00a0Stephen Bann described Kidner\u2019s patterns as <em>\u201cconstitutionally unstable and liable to take you to the brink of visual anarchy.\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101128\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101128\" class=\"wp-image-101128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner3-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner3-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Kidner, <i>Particle Evolution: The End of the Tunnel at Cern. Stage 1<\/i>, 2008, colored pencil on paper, 44 \u00bd&#8221; x 67 \u00be&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_101129\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101129\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101129\" class=\"wp-image-101129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner2-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner2-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled<\/i>, 2009, colored pencil on paper, 23 \u00bc&#8221; x 33 \u00be&#8221;.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_101130\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101130\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101130\" class=\"wp-image-101130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner1-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner1-768x684.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Rotation. Pale Blue, Red &amp; Orange<\/i>, 1964, oil pastel on paper, 13&#8243; x 15&#8243;.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_101131\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101131\" class=\"wp-image-101131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner6.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner6-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner6-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled<\/i>, 1963, oil pastel on paper, 7 \u00bd&#8221; x 11 \u00bc&#8221;.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_101132\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101132\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101132\" class=\"wp-image-101132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner4-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner4-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled<\/i>, 2006, colored pencil on paper, 35 \u00bd&#8221; x 53 \u00bc&#8221;.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_101133\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner5.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101133\" class=\"wp-image-101133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner5-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kidner5-768x436.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled<\/i>, 1966, oil pastel on paper, 35 \u00bd&#8221; x 53 \u00bc&#8221;.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artist Michael Kidner died in 2009. 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