Juxtaposition

Ben Nicholson and Victor Passmore (via)

They were next to each other, as if by chance, on a gallery website; poster children for past exhibitions. Both of these prints - separately - fill my heart with joy. They have a definiteness, a firm solidity ... and yet they have mystery.

Together, playing off each other, they approach being overwhelming. Areas, shapes, lines, directions, spaces ... in one you focus immediately on the small, definite shapes; in the other, the moon is slow to appear.