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Persian Series
An 18-part series of colorful shorts, made by Stan Brakhage between 1999 and 2001.....
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Persian Series #4
Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral desig....
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Persian Series #7
Very pale, thin, hieroglyphic pinks, greens and blues in a white space which is thickened over by ribbed mashes of these c....
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Persian Series #10
"Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and ....
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Persian Series #11
Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternati....
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Persian Series #5
Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of ....
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Persian Series #6
Persian Series #6 begins with what appears to be dried red and yellow rose petals, suddenly shot-thru with blue which caus....
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Persian Series #8
Pale petal and stem-like shapes counter punted rhythmically by an even paler "background" of truly ephemeral of truly ephe....
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Persian Series #9
Sharp edged "chunks" of color set in black, straight, often multicolored, lines piercing shapes, imprisoning them, until t....
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Persian Series #12
"Hot" by-play of reds-greens-yellows in black, blurred, finally, as the color shapes are shifted violently from side to si....
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Persian Series #13
Persian Series #13 is a series of extremely dark images, mostly in purples, greens, and fiery red-orange-yellows, shifting....
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Persian Series #14
Persian Series #14 is composed of muted color-shapes shifting variably in juxtaposition and contrast with high-contrast bl....
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Persian Series #15
Persian Series #15 is a rapid shift of patterns black & white playing off against muted coils of color.....
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Persian Series #16
Persian Series #16 is an even more exaggerated contrast of color and black-and-white patterning.....
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Persian Series #17
Persian Series #17 is a series of quite distinct globules of paint brilliantly colored and shifting as if vertically in th....
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Persian Series #18
Persian Series #18 is almost calligraphic in its overlays of dark (occasionally colored) glyphs backed by brilliant color ....
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Persian Series 1-5
One of Brakhage's series of short films painted directly on film, from 1999.....
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Persian #2
Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves sugges....
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Persian #1
This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fru....
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Persian #3
Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves....
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