Primary Sources

Primary Sources, 1987, acrylic on canvas

Primary Sources—During the 1990s, Clark created a list of some of the ideas he had been working with, and the sources of his learning about them in his painting Primary Sources.

1960—Willem DeKooning Geometric Constant of the Libido

1962—Albert Jensen Verbal-Spatial Fusion

1962—Bruce Conner Objects as Archetypes

1962—Gene Bernofsky Dream about Systemic Progression

1962—Terry Teagarden Self Exposure

1963—Richard Diebenkorn Cross-Dimensional Organization

1964—Mescaline Experience Superimposition of Objective and Subjective

1964—Meditation Gravity-Free Euclidean Space

1965—Buckminster Fulle Structure of Reality

1966—George Woodman Pattern as Field

1967—Ed Heinz Reflection

1967—Alice Bailey Focus

1967—Pascal Triangulated Iteration

1968—Steve Baer Divine Space

1969—Dream Demonic Ether

1972—Charles DiJulio Divine Road—Fibonacci

1974—Fred Worden Necker Space

1974—Agnes Martin Field as Mandela

1974—C. Jensen Balanced Cube

1981—Richard Kallweit Tetrahedron Cubed

1984—Barbara Ittner Personality Cube

1984—Jenny Smith & Keith Alborn Knowledge Diagrams

1985—Jennifer Bartlett Fusion of Opposites

1986—Magic Tetrahedron

1987—Euclid Open Continuum

1987—Albert Einstein Closed Continuum