[no title] 1968

Editor: Harold Cohen's untitled print from 1968 uses stark blacks and blues, juxtaposed against a smooth white form. What symbols or meanings do you see embedded within this abstract composition? Curator: The knitted blue suggests a domestic space, a sense of comfort, perhaps even vulnerability. Notice the stark contrast with the smooth, almost alien-like, white form. It evokes feelings of intrusion or perhaps transformation, a disruption to the familiar. What does the stark tonal contrast evoke for you? Editor: I see a contrast of textures, a soft versus hard quality that perhaps suggests an emotional tension. Curator: Precisely. Consider how these contrasting elements—the domestic and the foreign—speak to broader societal anxieties of the late 1960s, the era when this work was created. The image creates a powerful visual metaphor about disruption and change. Editor: That gives me a new way to look at it. Thank you!