Design and Art

Design and Art

The murals that bedeck the sides of the 50s era Bowl-a-Rama on Glencarin and Bathurst, in Toronto, have an eerie resemblance to the larger Barnett Newman work, of the same time.

Why is Newman art and Bowl-a-Rama design ?

(Newman interest in the kaballah would be useful here, the belief that words are powerful incarnation to meaning. Theory and not object make art–and the Bowl-a-Rama is constantly renewing, the murals change, the carpet changes, the font on the sign changes, so it becomes an athropology project. Newman will never change.)

Anthony Easton in The Brown Wedge • 406 views