Painting - Art Road

Colour

Posted on 11/11/2016 by zabihi40@gmail.com

We live our lives in colour. Each one of us perceives colour differently, and how we react to colours might depend on our eyesight, or mood or where we are from. Artists often use colour to explore their thoughts or feelings or their place in the world. Artists in the 20th and 21st centuries have tried to expend the way colour is used, from paint to photography to new materials.

“Strip”, 2011

Gerhard Richter
Digital print on paper between aluminium and acrylic.

In 2011, at the age of 80, he used computer software to divide a photograph of one of these paintings into thin strips, splitting and dividing it again and again.

Ellsworth Kelly
“Yellow Curve” 1996
Oil paint on canvas
Ellsworth Kelly explored colour and shape or ‘from’. He was interested in how we experience his art physically.
Kelly repeated shapes he saw in the world around him, such as shadows or spaces between objects. But his yellow triangle doesn’t represent anything other than what it is. He said the space he was interested in was not the surface of the painting, ‘but the space between you and the painting’.

Benode Behari Mukherjee 1904 – 1980
Born and worked India
Coloured paper collage on card
He was born blind in one eye and when he lost the sight in both eyes he began to make paper collages (like Henri Matisse).
He said he could tell the colour of the paper by touch and his inner eye guided his fingers to create art.

Notes from Tate Modern.

Exotic Sensual Illusory

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“Hope ll”

Gustav Klimt

1907-8

Oil, gold and platinum on canvas

‘Painting of a pregnant woman, and her unborn child as an embodiment of hope and emergence of Sigmund Freud’s explorations of the child within every adult persona in Vienna’s turn-of-the-century. The skull nestling on her belly is an allusion to death.’

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“Lady with Fan”

Gustav Klimt

1917-1918

Oil on canvas

‘This Relaxed pose of the Lady, calms you down and gives you the opportunity to explore all the rich colours and exquisite patterns of this painting.’

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“Death and Life”

Gustav Klimt

Started in 1908 and finished in1915

Oil on canvas

‘Death and life are two very clear part of the painting.

Death standing on the left watching over life in an amusing way, and on the right, a man holding a woman and young women behind them are holding their new born child. An older lady in the middle of them, showing another stage of life in a soft and beautiful way. Over representation of women could refer to women as source of life.

All covered in flowers and patterns that you can see in other Klimt’s paintings.

Creating the circle of life on canvas in the most poetic way possible.’

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Notes: Yasaman Zabihi Zohari

Photos From Wikipedia

Expressive Painting in Fashion

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Name: Emily Eason

DOB: November 1993

Place of birth: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Occupation: Freelance Textile designer

My project explores time lapse through diversion, the process of exposing light and shadow. My initial inspiration compares how line and movement interact with light. I used various photographic techniques in this practice, to fulling capture fluidity of motion, at first I studied smoke and fire. Progressing into focusing on the smallest of details in the tendrils of movement as fire becomes smoke. Expressing the concept of free-form. Not conforming to a regular pattern, structure, shape or constricted movement. Playing on the abstraction of line, light, darkness and negative space.

The processes I used to record and express this, ink and bleach expressive painting, development the motion and fluidity into my designs. I documented the complexity and vast detail involved in a split second of movement, contrasted by documenting this as it is created and seen by the naked eye.

I used a variety of knitted techniques to create a juxtaposition of fluid motion and the structure of block knitting, one example would be lively pleats, crossing paths with structured lines or racking the needles bed while pleating colours on top. Then screen printing my drawing of the motion on to my fabric to advance my concept further developing my original free form idea. The use of these techniques on top of my original designs gave the appearance of flexibility and diversity in motion.

For my final project I created 5 knitted garments on fine gauge Dubied knitting machines, enveloping these design ideas by screen printing with illuminating dye to make it truly part of the fabric . Explaining my inspiration and research. I documented the vibrancy and energy in a professional photoshoot, and gain knowledge throughout this whole process. The idea of combining, developing and manipulation processes; and how we can alter movement and detail.

I graduated from Manchester metropolitan University in BA textile in practice and now work as a freelance textile designer. Through this I am now developing my design personality and making skills.