books that I have lately enjoyed: 'How to look at a painting' by F. Barbe-Gall, 'Painting Today' and 'Conceptual Art' by T. Godfrey, 'The $12 million stuffed shark' by D. Thompson, 'Contemporary Painting in Context by Anne R. Peterson et al., 'A natural history of the palette' by V. Finlay, 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art' by W. Kandinsky.
Taschen's 'Collecting Contemporary Art' was quite a bore with brief interviews and no real substance but to give a basic introduction/overview to the world of contemporary art - another piece of marketing. 'Owning Art' by L. Buck and J. Greer which was a bit more informative than Taschen's. 'Seven days in the art world' provides more or less the same information but through the personal experience of the author and therefore it was more interesting.
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Monday 30 January 2012
Some ideas on the characteristics of color
According to Kandinsky color can sound, smell ("scented colors"), taste, they can be rough or sticky, smooth or uniform, soft (e.g. rose madder) or hard and dry (e.g. cobalt green). "Generally speaking, color is a power which directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings".
The following lines expressed by Kandinsky made me think about my painting 'yellow pink and blue'..."The eye is strongly attracted by light, clear colors, and still more strongly attracted by those colors which are warm as well as clear... Keen lemon-yellow hurst the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet note the ear, and the gaver turns away to seek relief in blue and green. ... Yellow if steadily gazed at any geometrical form, has a disturbing influence, and reveals in the color an insistent, aggressive character.". Looking at my painting, the eye is invited and rests on the pink-red left hand side, disturbed and chocked by the lemon-yellow centre which overwhelms the whole painting partly due the large surface it covers, and finally obtains releif in the deep dark blue on the right.
Wednesday 11 January 2012
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