R G B
red, green, blue.


a simple background check on color.
pardon the dust.


















R G B
red,green,blue.

a simple background check on color.
pardon the dust.

"Roygbiv" is a song from Boards of Canada albums
Boc Maxima and Music Has the Right to Children



1. Samuel Hart Room, 1680

2. The Wentworth Room 1695

3. The Hewlett Room

The intense blue of the woodwork and the orange red inside the shell cupboard were both popular color choices at the time, and—after microscopic analysis of color chip samples—the Museum has replicated the exact hues of the original paint. The paints were specially made for the room, with natural pigments suspended in linseed oil.

The Dutch tiles around the fireplace opening, which depict biblical scenes, are not original to this room, but rather representative of tiles that were imported in the mid-eighteenth century. The room also includes examples of early eighteenth-century decoration on painted furniture, quillwork, needlework, and ceramics.

At the time the Hewlett Room was built, painters were being influenced by materials and decorative techniques from the Far East and India as the result of trade routes that had newly opened in the previous century. Painters imitated lacquer ware with a method called "japanning," in which a dazzling array of animals, flowers, and Far Eastern figures and structures were depicted in gold leaf and paint on polished black backgrounds.




via the met museum....





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the
new
green.






"Green is also known to have signified witchcraft, devilry and evil for its association with faeries and spirits of early English folklore. It also had an association with decay and toxicity"


The Wizard of Oz:
"In this story is the Emerald City, where everyone wears tinted glasses which make everything look green. According to the populist interpretation of the story, the city’s color is used by the author, L. Frank Baum, to illustrate the financial system of America in his day, as he lived in a time when America was debating the use of paper money versus gold."




image above:
John McCracken
Green Block
1969








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COLOR STUDY FOR A NEW ROOM.

the darkness
will lead
us home.

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"A colour is transparent or opaque, lighter or darker, pure or broken, ex or introverted. To these measurable qualities come the sensations that they cause, which are affected by individual associations.

The factors which affect these qualities allude to the interplay of material and structure, of size, format and position in space, of what is meant and not meant."

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"the darkness will lead us home"

two paintings:
1. Caro Nieder,"View fro the Pink Sofa" 2009 c/o Hauser and Wirth
2. Emanuel Seitz, Untitled 2010 c/o Jacky Strenze Galerie

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when sculptures become buildings

julian opie
vs.
anne truitt
vs.
renzo piano

Having taken off from the houses, trees, fences, and fields of my childhood...
I very soon found that I was leaving the literal object behind...
I discovered form and color, and ultimately to the work
I am doing now, at once more austere in structure and more expressive in color....

Anne Truitt on form and color, May 3,1975

"Project architect and associate Maurits van der Staay, describes the placement of each colour (there are six different colours, including grey and light grey) as “informed random”.

He says it was Renzo Piano’s ambition to “make a joyful building in contrast to the surrounding grey stone and red brick by fragmenting the colour”. The process has been a little like working out a very complicated seating plan and has taken months of manipulating physical models to ensure the same colours never appear next to each other , that they relate appropriately to the surrounding buildings, and that each facet is positioned at the correct angle."

read more here..

julian opie
vs.
anne truitt
vs.
renzo piano

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George Sowden

more color
in
design:
1981
2001

1981.



George J. Sowden was born in Leeds, UK in 1942. He studied architecture at Gloucestershire College of Art in the 1960’s. He moved to Milano in 1970 where he started working with Ettore Sottsass and Olivetti. In 1981, he was one of the co-founders of the Memphis Group, the design movement that had a significant impact on design aesthetics in the eighties.

2001.

It's amazing to see how George Sowden's
designs have changed through the decades..
while still remaining committed to color.
His catalogue is pure eye candy.

"SowdenDesign has designed and engineered mechanical and electronic products since the 1970's and our designs have consistently been at the forefront of emerging technology.

With dozens of international awards and a unique background as pioneers of the postmodern design movement, we're recognized as one of the world's leaders in product design.
SowdenDesign was founded in 1981, in Milan, by George J. Sowden and has grown over the years with important partnership relationships: Simon Morgan, Hiroshi Ono, Davy Kho and Franco Mele, and great collaborations with associates: Christian Hartmann, Stephen England, Cynthia Viale, Giovanni Amenduni, Christopher Coombes, Guillaume Delvigne and Tomas Ortiz Ferrer."






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Blue thunder.

considering
blue,
and a
way to go home
again.

Jason Irla
"I have no house, only a shadow." 2009

Blue: a noun.

1. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

(unknown blue lamp)

"Thinkin' of blue thunder Singin' to myself Thinkin' how fast it moves
Feelin how it turns I was singin' somethin Out on Route 128
Thinkin how blue it looks Singin out aloud
My my blue thunder My my blue thunder."

-Galaxie 500, Blue Thunder.

couple: submissive and dominant
(two blue lamps)








2. Gloomy; depressed





3. Dismal or dreary.

Out of the blue:


1. From an unexpected or unforeseen source: criticism that came out of the blue.


2. At a completely unexpected time: a long-unseen friend who appeared out of the blue.

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Ellsworth Kelly, Blue over Orange, 1964

Into the blue,

1. At a far distance; into the unknown: spontaneously take a trip into the blue.

Cheyney Thomspon,
untitled, (blue-red)
2009











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when colors cooperate.

color.
color theory.
color explosion.
when colors hate each other.
color crushed out.
color chair stacks.


































































when colors cooperate:


1. ugo rondine
2. frank stell, hotel lobby (?)
3. very good and proper, via man make home.. awesome blog.




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"Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience.

Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative color studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and is one of the most influential resources on color for countless readers."

go to yale press here for more info.

josef albers.

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