More Rothko reds

Sol Lewitt

Project 4 ideas – Anish Kapoor

think i’m going to go with RED for the last project – ANGER / BEAUTY. Anish Kapoor has a lot of works in red. Some of it is pure pigment. Wow.

Anni Albers

Curious about what the wife of Josef Albers did in the way of color:

Black White Gray (1927)

Rug

Loïs Mailou Jones

I’m researching women of color artists for Project 3 and have discovered Lois Mailou Jones. Amazing how many people one can not have heard of …

Street Vendors, Port au Prince, Haiti (1978)

Symboles d’Afrique I (1980)

Marche, Haiti (1963)

March 15 Exercise 3: After image

Look at this then look at a white piece of paper or a white wall. What do you see??

March 15 Exercise 2: 2 colors look the same

March 15 Exercise 1: Reverse Ground

Whoa!

Chinese five elements theory

A theory of elements, with colors associated.

From http://chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa041900a.htm

The Chinese believe that we are surrounded by five energy fields: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. However, the elements are not static: they are constantly moving and changing.   (In fact, some scientists think the term “element” is misleading, and prefer to refer to the “five phases” or “five forces.”)

Once the Chinese identified the five elements, they set about categorizing all phenomena within the five categories. Everything, from a river to sounds to the organs in our bodies, can be described in terms of the five elements.  How things are characterized depends on their individual qualities.  For example, earth is associated with growth and nourishment, so the spleen, which monitors the blood – digesting debris and producing antibodies when necessary – is categorized as an earth element.

Just as an imbalance between yin and yang can produce destructive forces, keeping all elements in balance promotes harmony both in our surroundings and ourselves. Of course, balancing five elements is a little more complicated than achieving harmony between two opposing forces. According to Chinese belief, each element acts upon two others, either giving birth to it or controlling it. For example, wood gives birth to fire and controls or suppresses earth.  Similarly, fire gives birth to earth and controls metal. All the elements are constantly interacting with other elements – none stand alone.