Color in Art

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I am reading a book called colorphobia .
It states that as art critics we do not talk about color because it is spurious. We view color as insignifigant . ( i am oversimplyfing)
So lets break that taboo. Which Artists do you admire for color
I love Bonnard, Gauguin, Dieboerken(sp),Holbein,Houkasai(sp) and Warhol.

― anthony, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only artist I appreciate exclusively for color is Maxfield Parrish.

― Melissa W, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now that i go back to the basement the book is called Chromophobia . Its cover is pink and it has this blue green fractal on it .

― anthony, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like late Rothko

― tarden, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every once in a while I'll hear a quizbowl question about an artist which was obviously lifted from a book because they'll say X was a "master colorist" or "supreme colorist". So there must be books SOMEWHERE that talk about color. If only to say what fucking great colorists people are.

Matissse, Chagall, Kandinsky, Klimt, Rothko, Renoir, Turner, Constable, Mondriaan, some of those old dudes Kate is always banging on about.

Color is pretty hard to separate, when valuing its use, from other stuff like rendering, material, etc.

― Josh, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Paintings with green in them = masterpieces
Paitings with red = the work of meretricious charlatans

― mark s, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not a Titian fan then eh?

Begs the question: what abt. paintings with red AND green? Neither?

― Josh, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Edouard Vuillard is a great colourist of the traditional type.

Away from Provencal shades, Arno Bocklin and Paul Delvaux are masters of pallid, rainstorm-approaching northern european colour.

Edvard Munch's work was described by a contemporary critic as "lobster bisque", which, when I read it, demolished any residual post-adolescent enjoyment I had left. Of Munch's work, that is, not life in general.

― Alasdair, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's a cliche, but Van Gogh.

Those "Medieval Dudes That I Bang On About". (c) Josh.

Pre-Raphaelites, especially Burne-Jones and Rossetti. And that one painter, I forget his name, but he did "Flaming June" and that painting of the woman in the cobalt blue dress standing by a hedge that her lover is concealed behind...

Half the reason that I like Medieval painters and Pre-Raphaelites is that they are utterly shameless of their adoration of colours. The science of colour was viewed with near religious respect in the late middle ages and early Rennaisance- the secrets of pigments were as closely guarded as state secrets.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lord Leighton and you are right flaming june is spectacualar.

― anthony, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am colourblind, so discussion of visual art in terms of colours is very difficult for me. I'm only red/green, and I can cope with traffic lights etc, but I do seem to perceive colours differently from non-colourblind people. It's like the mapping from colour names to visible colours is broken. For example, I might agree with someone that blue thing A is blue but maintain that blue thing B is actually purple.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Paintings with green and red in them = masterpieces by meretricious charlatans

― mark s, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My dad is R/G colour blind, and he always did like the oddest art. But then again, he did turn me on to the Pre-Raphs, so I can't complain.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Damn I wish I had time to answer thsi properly but for now warhol, grosz

― Ed, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

HOnestly, any one who paints with fuschia is a wussy.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, man! Think about the fuschia! (I cannot spell that word... I can manage fascist, but cannot do Fushcia). However you spell the name of the colour, it rocks.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fuck it, lets all just write fonetikly. (fuk it , lets awl just rite funeticly) Fyooshuh

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thad iz howe thable thom wrytes, bud thad iz coz hee wuz taut to rite by a KAT!!!

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hoo iz thable thom?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thable thom iz MEEEE!!!!! i iz a cloan. kayte fownd mee in a chopping kart at a soopermarkit and tuk me hoam. won ov hur frends kats tawt mie howe to rite, and i wud ged up to noe gud on ver raydiohed borad wen kayte wud pas owt drunced. sum pipple on ver bord thowt i wuz REEL efen tho i wuz OBFIUSLEE A CLOAN wisch mayd id efen fonnier. ha hah! howe i laffed! undil kayte woak up and beet mie. shie iz meen.

― thable thom, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

odelon redon (sp?) and andi watson.

― ethan, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Man tipeing in fonetik iz veri hard too reed

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yoo rilly haff to reed id owt lowd in ordur to unnerstant id.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I refuse point blank to get involved in the phonetic wars. ;-)

Rothko as well -- and actually Edward Gorey, who while mostly monochrome used what color he did with great style and effectiveness. Maxfield Parrish makes for good indulgences too, like Melissa said. Plenty of Japanese artists past and present, from Hokusai to now.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This wa an awesome thread mutation . Color in art to typin g phonetically. What a red herring!

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

great (mis)use of colour - Tretchikoff

― m jemmeson, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amano! Amano! His use of colour is amazing- especially bold colours like red, and even GOLD- which normally looks tacky in anything except medieval art- in an effective and dazzlingly beautiful way.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was going to write Redon. You are right about gold Kate.

― anthony, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maxfield P.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are some very few exceptions where gold looks good in art- medieval art, Russian icons, Klimpt (sp?) and middle eastern art where it is combined with bright cobalt blue, turquoise and that sort of cream papyrus colour.

It's all about having colours around it which are bold enough to counterpoint it, but not garish.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Exactly. This is why it works with Warhols gold leaf drawings and his gold . This is why it works so well with Moghul or mid arabic mintures. The artificalness of the figures with the arrogance of the colors.

― anthony, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, duh, of course -- Pierre et Gilles. Since all the photographic prints are in fact black and white and then hand-colored after that, color is of explicit importance in their work.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best example of me admiring the colours most would be Franz Marc's Yellow Cow.

― Kim, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i spelled redon correctly? blimey.

― ethan, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I feel the samy way about Gilbert and GEorge. They amuse me because hand painted photgraphy was victorinia twee until the Twin Fags got a hold of them and then well.

― anthony, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Gordons makes us very, very drunk." The inevitable thing I think of whenever Gilbert and George are mentioned -- early seventies video piece of them sitting silently and drinking said gin while listening to Pachlebel's "Canon" (or however you spell his name), with only those words on the soundtrack, spoken over and over again.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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