uic topics in painting I
“This course will use readings and visual art painting projects as ways to explore and understand Color Theory. Beyond the conventions of ROY G. BIV we are often left with a highly amorphous, political, and affective goo that penetrates our psyche faster than we can understand its impact. This course will explore color against language and through the body. It will be comprised of a variety of philosophically based projects and critical readings with which to approach theories of color and the impact it has in/on our daily lives, culture, and the world. You will also be introduced color as a material and as a philosophy that is fundamentally against language systems built on binaries and opposites. The goal of this course is to acquire the fundamental skills necessary to understand how color performs on the senses, influences thought, and fuels cultural discourse/politics, in order to express oneself with color in imaginative and compelling ways.”
-MMetzger
on narrative
on narrative
using color to abstract the narrative created between black lines on a page
narrative deconstructed
on Theory of Colours
As taken from “Remarks on Colour” by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1950)
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“Someone who is familiar reddish-green should be in a position to produce a colour series which starts with red and ends with green and which perhaps even for us constitutes a continuous transition between the two. We would then discover that at the point where we always see the same shade, e.g. of brown, this person sometimes sees brown and sometimes sees reddish-green. It may be, for example, that he can differentiate between colours of two chemical compounds that seem to us to be the same colour and he calls one brown and the other reddish-green.”
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“We speak of ‘black’ mirror. But where it mirrors, it darkens, of course, but it doesn’t look black, and that which is seen in it does not appear ‘dirty’ but ‘deep’. “
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“What is the importance of the concept of saturated color?”
