Nicholas Baume, ed., Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future, exhibition catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 2008, reproduced p.106. small, minor, insignificant, negligible, weak, modest, trivial, superficial, feeble, trifling, meagre, unimportant, paltry, measly, insubstantial, scanty, inconsiderable It's only made a slight difference. The name of the sculpture refers to the artist’s son, Ishan, and the title deliberately evokes a work by the Minimalist painter Barnett Newman (1905–70), called Anna’s Light 1968 (Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan). Anna’s Light, named for the artist’s mother, is Newman’s largest painting. Both works use highly saturated reds but the tones are very different. Kapoor’s dark and enveloping blood red in the interior of Ishi’s Light nevertheless seems to echo the effect of the brilliant and suffusing red pigment of Anna’s Light. The older artist’s impact on Kapoor’s work is long standing. As an art student Kapoor saw Newman’s large red painting Vir Heroicus Sublimis 1950–1 (Museum of Modern Art, New York), which was a formative experience for him. He explains:

Legyen partnerünk és használja ki az S-LIGHTLED VISZONTELADÓI PROGRAM kedvezményeit! Várjuk viszonteladók, kivitelezők, lakberendezők jelentkezését, akik minőségi termékeket és megbízható partnert keresnek.insult, snub, affront, contempt, disregard, indifference, disdain, rebuff, disrespect, slap in the face (informal), inattention, discourtesy, (the) cold shoulder a child weeping over an imagined slight

I’m sure a lot of people would agree that we live in strange times. But do they have to be so strange that Area 51 is making headlines? And what’s this about fish the look like aliens. September’s Words in the News explain all.The distortions created by the reflective surfaces of this sculpture change our sense of space. Kapoor wanted to create the feeling of being immersed in an artwork. He named the work after his son Ishan. But he was also inspired by his experience of an abstract painting - Anna’s Light 1968 - by Barnett Newman. Kapoor wrote of it: ‘It completely surrounds and engulfs you. It astounded me that art could step out of narrative so completely; that art could seem to have nothing to say, and yet engage all the truly important things that there are to say. Of course, in talking about Newman I’m talking about myself.’ snub, insult, ignore, rebuff, affront, neglect, put down, despise, scorn, disdain, disparage, cold-shoulder, treat with contempt, show disrespect for, give offence or umbrage to They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted. brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside - bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" When you stand in front of this huge work, it is as though it ceases to be a picture. It completely surrounds and engulfs you. It astounded me that art could step out of narrative so completely; that art could seem to have nothing to say, and yet engage all the truly important things that there are to say. Of course, in talking about Newman I’m talking about myself.