Tuesday 9 October 2012

Colour!

".. Paint as a factory - made commodity. The colour that possesses no higher truth than the materials that were required to make it"

This quote was taken from the book Colour Chart: Renivating colour, 1950 - Today, written by Ann Temkin. I think it is interesting to view colour through a process of materiality. The use of a 'colour chart' makes us (the viewer) more aware of the everyday and the surroundings. I tend to notice that in terms of my practice the colours chosen cause a further interpretation into the surrounding architecture. It invokes not the realm of fine art, but rather the non art purposes for which the overwhelming majority of paint in the world is made.

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