Sunday, June 2, 2019

Interesting links: colour


Albers








Goethe

Goethe's Theory of Colours, Part 2


Goethe's Theory of Colours, Part 2



Goethe's Theory of Colours, Part 3



Goethe's Theory of Colours, Part 4



 

Delacroix

 



Chasse au tigre [Tiger Hunt]



https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix

Delacroix drew inspiration from many sources over his career, such as the literary works of William Shakespeare and Lord Byron, or the artistry of Michelangelo. But from beginning to end of his life, he was in part characterized by a constant need for music, saying in 1855, "nothing can be compared with the emotion caused by music; that it expresses incomparable shades of feeling." He had said, while working at Saint Sulpice, that the music put him in a state of "exaltation" which inspired his painting. It was often in music, in the most melancholy renditions of Chopin, or the "pastoral" works of Beethoven that Delacroix was often able to draw the most emotion and inspiration. At one point during his life, Delacroix befriended and made portraits of the composer Chopin; in his journal, Delacroix praised him frequently.

Quotes: 

I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.


All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.








David Batchelor on the fear of colour 



Other links


Handwritten 19th-Century Color Guide Poetically Describes Where Shades Are Found in Nature

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