richard poussette-dart

Artist Pousette-Dart did not see the circle merely as a shape. For him, it was a primal symbol charged with existential power.

His paintings of abstract circles constitute one of the most profound visual meditations on eternity and spirituality in 20th-century art.

Pousette-Dart’s pointillist work for hospitals “Presence Healing Circles,”envision a different kind of recovery. This artist was deeply spiritual. He placed his works in sterile white corridors to radically reform clinical space. His circles test the healing ability not only of art, but of the form. They serve as experiments in empathy.