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The Power of Red

Red has always been my color
because red stands out.
Red is one of the strongest colors, its blood,
it has a power with the eye.
That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well…
In fact, I use red in all of my paintings.
– Keith Haring

Red is the greatest clarifier – bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red – it would be like becoming
bored with the person you love.
– Diana Vreeland

Red is uplifting.
– J. Lewis

Red protects itself. No color is as territorial.
It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
~ Derek Jarman

When I haven’t any blue, I use red.
– Pablo Picasso

I love red so much,
I almost want to paint everything red.
– Alexander Calder

Red, of course, is the color of the interior of our bodies.
In a way it’s inside out, red.
– Anish Kapoor

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
– Bill Blass

Red can communicate all sorts of messages.
Red symbolizes passion, action, energy, happiness,
authority, strength, and confidence…
– Adam Glassman
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E X H I B I T I O N S

ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 – Wed, Mar 27, 2024

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 – Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 – Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY

Thu, Feb 8, 2024 – Sat, Mar 30, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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Sunshine, Food and Medicine

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date July 18, 2019
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Flowers are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
– Luther Burbank, botanist, horticulturist

Flowers have been an important part of cultures for thousands of years.
People use them to celebrate, mourn, mark special occasions, and
adorn themselves.

When you have only two pennies left in the world,
buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
~ Chinese Proverb

An Afghan version of “beating swords into plowshares …”
This man in Kayan, Baghlan Province, was
making flowerpots from shells intended to kill and maim.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals.
Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression;
some are pensive and diffident;
others again are plain, honest and upright, like the
broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
– Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers

CAMBODIA-10083 — Oaxaca, MexicoAngkor Wat, Cambodia

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~ Claude Monet

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him
through the graceful bending of their stems and the
harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms.
Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
– Auguste Rodin

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks.
There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret,
like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
~G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

People from a planet without flowers would think
we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat