“One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it. It does not please the eye or awaken another sense. It is the agent of the mind even more than the beautiful colour of the palette or prism.”
—French Symbolist Odilon Redon, (1840–1916); quoted in Color in Art, by John Gage, 2006. Pictured is Louise Nevelson’s Sky Cathedral, 1958.
“I’ve been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.”
—Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Louise Nevelson worked in black a lot. Lots of shadow box effects . . . the blacks just get blacker.