The Results Are In

Bex - Red
66.5% - Bex
14% - Charlie
14% - Tara
5.5% - Clare

Charlie - Blue

43.5% - Charlie

38% - Clare

16.5% - Susanne

3% - Tara

Tara - Pink

60% - Tara

14.5% - Susanne

14.5 % - Clare

8.5% - Charlie

2.5% - Bex

Clare - Yellow

55.5% - Susanne

27.5% - Clare

11.5% - Charlie

5.5% - Tara

Susanne - Purple

30.5% - Bex

22% - Charlie

19.5% - Tara

14% - Susanne

14% - Clare

Willem De kooning!

This is in relation to Mark Rothko, De Kooning's paintings started, well not colourful, but not dark, you can trace this descent into poverty in the 20' and 30's because of the change in colour, shape and form. (to poor to buy fine quailty artists paint, he used household black and white enamels  You can also see the effects of alzheimer's within the colours used...  

A biography of his life can be found on this website http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/willem-de-kooning/

I think that you can see the difference between his earlier work, and the work that he made whilst living in poverty, the black painting is called "Black Friday" . 

I'm starting to really understand the strong link between an artists personal life and the way that they go about making art work. It could be interesting to look at some past work that we've done and try to link it up to times in our lives, and what they represent to us.

Leonardo Cremonese

This painting by Cremonese involves using oil paint on linen. Born in Brazil, Cremonese then moved to Sydney where he has been exhibiting work since 1991. His bright colours are inspiring and striking attracting the audience further into his work. He use of application is apparent in all of his works which creates a texture which is very unique. I like his loose and experimental feel throughout his work.

Mark Rothko

When Rothko started his colour field paintings they were radiant and bright progressively getting darker as he continued to progress to the point where he was producing black/grey and just black paintings at which point he committed suicide!! So moral of story......Don't paint Black!!

But to the point, Rothko's paintings are very intense...huge fields of colour which draw you into them....ie audience engagement. He built up layers of thin paint which evolved into a luminous vision on huge canvasses.


"Rothko, however, generally avoided explaining the content of his work, believing that the abstract image could directly represent the fundamental nature of human drama. For him, eschewing
representation permitted greater clarity, the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea and between the idea and the observer."

I think that last statement is useful in thinking about how we will display and engage an audience in our colour works.

Gerhard Richter

"Gerhard Richter (born Dresden, 1932) is one of the world’s greatest living artists. Since the early 1960s he has tirelessly explored the medium of painting at a time when many were heralding its death. He has produced a remarkably varied body of work, including photography-based portrait, landscape and still-life paintings; gestural and monochrome abstractions; and colour chart grid paintings. In autumn 2008, the Serpentine presented 4900 Colours, a major new work comprising bright monochrome squares randomly arranged in a grid formation to create stunning sheets of kaleidoscopic colour.
4900 Colours comprises 196 square panels of 25 coloured squares that can be reconfigured in a number of variations, from one large-scale piece to multiple, smaller paintings. Richter developed a new version especially for the Serpentine Gallery exhibition: 4900 Colours: Version II, formed of 49 paintings of 100 squares.
4900 Colours is in the context of Richter’s design for the south transept window of Cologne Cathedral, which replaced the stained glass that was destroyed in World War II. Cathedral Window, unveiled in August 2007, comprises 11,500 hand-blown squares of glass in 72 colours that are derived from the palette of the original medieval glazing."
I guess in a way we are exploring a similar concept.....a painting derived from a palette of our own colours?...Maybe!

Gerhard Richter

This was a painting i found by Gerhard Richter. He has come up in our group conversations many times which made me look into his work a bit more. I love his style and technique and i want to adopt the texture of his paintings within mine. Obviously he uses many colours which unfortunately is against our group rules. However, i like his work and feel it is a great technique to adopt. 

Sorry about the size of this image i clicked small but its being funny!

Identity

Colours: Red, Grey, and i think Gold :)
Star Sign: sagittarius
Gem Stone: TurquoiseBirth
Flower: paperwhite narcissus
Chinese year : Dragon
Element: fireI think this is it!

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One more....

This piece is another which popped up in my research. I am posting it on here because this to me is a typical aura painting. Is the aura a circluar shape? That seems to be a popular choice when painting auras. I don't particularly like this painting but i think its good to establish what i don't want to achieve when painting my group's auras. As a group have decided to establish one colour within our paintings which looks more closely at personality as opposed to this piece.

identity

Colours: Royal Blue
Star Sign: Leo
Gem Stone: Ruby
Birth Flower: Sunflower
Chinese year : Rabbit
Element: Fire

Looking at Identity

Colours: Lemon Colours
Star Sign: Libra
Gem Stone: Opal
Birth Flower: Bluebell & Large Roses
Chinese year : Dragon
Element: Air