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American
(1939–1998)
Rune
1989
Blood, gold, and metorite dust on wood panel
13.5 x 9 in. (34.29 x 22.86 cm)
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2007.72
Eric Orr possessed a longtime interest in sacred geometries and primordial mysteries. In Rune (the title of which refers to ancient Germanic alphabets with supposedly magical powers, or more generally to obscure writing using mysterious symbols), Orr created a sacred geometry in contemporary terms. Throughout the twentieth century, abstract painters often conveyed symbolic spiritual content through geometric shapes. In the 1920s Piet Mondrian equated the harmony achieved through balancing horizontal and vertical lines with utopian spiritual ideals. Barnett Newman, in the 1950s, painted a vertical line through the center of his paintings, which he called a “zip” and viewed as a metaphor for the infiite sublime. Compositionally Rune derives from this tradition, with Orr using a series of alternating red and gold vertical stripes and a centrally positioned dark vertical bar to symbolize life, eternity, and the transitional space between the worlds of physical and metaphysical consciousness.
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