Barbara Caruso, whom I wrote about awhile ago, was a lifelong student
of colour. She certainly writes about her explorations in her books of
essays: Wording the Silent Art. Which can be found at The Mercury
Press website.
She mixed her own colours, working with black & white bases, among
others. So that from painting to painting, her blues, reds, etc,
altered, if only slightly.
Amazing dedication to the life & art of colour....
Doug
On 8-Feb-10, at 5:42 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 11:24 -0500, Peter ciccariello wrote:
>> http://www.facebook.com/l/afe03;thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/
>
> This pushed me to think about colour and the ways in which our
> understandings and the way colour is thought did change considerably
> around 1960 (which also coincided with publication of Ittens
> elements of
> colour in 1961 which links back to the Bauhaus)
>
> To flatten texture I have been painting objects for the still lifes
> using student acrylics and the standard six primary colours (ie warm
> and
> cool so you have warm red and cool red) and basically just for the fun
> of mixing colours. However the feeling these colours have seemed to me
> to be like graphic design colours (eg Pantone colours) more so then
> painterly colours of oil on canvas. Pop art comes to mine or David
> Hockney's use of acrylic.
>
> I did a quick search and my suspicions seem correct so any
> comments,leads welcome. (I also play around with mixing colours on a
> computer screen)
>
> http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/livingcolor/index.html
>
> http://moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/30
>
Douglas Barbour
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