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Fra Angelico: The Dream of Innocent (panel)

Small panel painting analyzed as an example of being-nature in color, where black interacts with blue at a distance to create inner light.

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Concepts (2)

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  • inner light
    about
    A profound color phenomenon in great paintings or buildings where colors are both subdued and brilliantly shining, an extension of life in things, touching the heart of existence.
  • Being-nature
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    The quality a structure has when it is deeply connected to the I; what Alexander strives to produce in each element of a building.

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  • Fra Angelico black-color probe
    about
    Alexander offers this as a way for the reader to directly experience how inner light and being-nature emerge in color through unexpected compositional choices.