class we are getting a curator led tour of the exhibition color bind
at the MCA
fri nov 16 at 3pm put it in your schedules!
Friday, November 2, 2012
mocp assignment
please visit the jan tichy exhibition at the mocp, familiarize yourself with his artistic/curatorial strategies with the mocp collection, and write a blog post (with accompanying cell phone pix you take discreetly during your visit) on the following:
fully describe the image you find most compelling that uses color:
realistically
expressively
symbolically/culturally coded
write a fourth section on one of the moving images pieces and its use of color and tone
fifth, write about a last piece for reasons of your own choosing and explain why the piece is successful by describing it fully.
enjy the exhibition, post your responses to the blog by the beginning of next week!
fully describe the image you find most compelling that uses color:
realistically
expressively
symbolically/culturally coded
write a fourth section on one of the moving images pieces and its use of color and tone
fifth, write about a last piece for reasons of your own choosing and explain why the piece is successful by describing it fully.
enjy the exhibition, post your responses to the blog by the beginning of next week!
stategies for abstracting
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Here are some strategies we talked about in class to create abstract color images that start to reveal larger subject ideas involved in the subject of your project:
Here are some strategies we talked about in class to create abstract color images that start to reveal larger subject ideas involved in the subject of your project:
Interval
of time
Blur
Averaging
or mean
Somehow
tracing the physical act of making an image
Zooming
in / detail
Heat
Faith
Long
exposure
We will have individual meetings next week of a few minutes to discuss your ideas for the abstract conceptualism assignment due in two weeks.
next week we will meet at 930AM
at 845 w washington, 3rd floor at Document (a printing lab and exhibition space).
my cell is 312.953.2885
we will spend the morning at document and at kavi gupta gallery (two doors down) where we will see and discuss melanie schiff's new photography exhibition.
see you in the west loop next week at 930am sharp!
We will have individual meetings next week of a few minutes to discuss your ideas for the abstract conceptualism assignment due in two weeks.
next week we will meet at 930AM
at 845 w washington, 3rd floor at Document (a printing lab and exhibition space).
my cell is 312.953.2885
we will spend the morning at document and at kavi gupta gallery (two doors down) where we will see and discuss melanie schiff's new photography exhibition.
see you in the west loop next week at 930am sharp!
dark orange
Dark
Orange (Hyun)
Orange in general had been the least
interesting color to me since when I was young. I still can clearly remember
that I always didn’t like the color. Orange? It was a big No. I didn’t like to eat orange and I didn’t like
the color just because. I always thought it was too acid and got stressed
thinking of it. It was a boring color to the end and i got sick of it so easily. However, it changed recently about three years ago. I was like
“why do I always hate this color? Why don’t I think about this color more? It’s
actually refreshing and very orangey (I liked to eat orange at the time)”. I
started to be interested in the color more than before and see more of this
color in the world.
Located in the middle of red and yellow in a
color wheel, orange is not too overpowering as red and yellow but also it isn’t
a neutral muted color. Even though we are talking about the DARK orange, it
still based on its fresh popping energetic vibrant orange color. Pantone color
number 144 would be the perfect example of this dark orange color and
considering the fact that orange is the Panton Color of the Year 2012, the
color has energy and characteristic that attract people’s attention. The
fashion world had many items featuring the color this year; Michael Kors
SPRING, BCBG FALL, Nanette Lepore, Charlotte Ronson, Derek Lam, and so on. Also,
since it’s a color that draws attention, there are many brands using this color
in their logo, which is the most well known visual representation of the
company. For example, fashion brand Tory Burch, Hermès uses
the color. Firefox does too and Dunkin Donuts, Home Depot, Harley Davidson,
ING, Timberland, Nickelodeon, and amazon use orange as well. Throughout so many
different areas of fields, its use is not attached to just one area but it’s
everywhere. It’s very earthy color too.
Even though it has its energetic and vibrant
characteristics, we can find the color in the nature especially in UTAH area.
There are many dark orange-red colored canyons such as Bryce Canyon, Grand
Canyon, Red Rock Canyon, Zion National Park and so on. Just looking at some
pictures from those areas, I can feel its heat, depth and somehow loyalty too. It’s
quiet and silent. It has time and space compressed in the terrain itself that is grand
and magnificent.
Chartreuse
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Chartreuse is a
toxic color. As the midpoint between yellow and green on the color
wheel, it can be found abundant in nature, nonetheless, upon seeing it I defy anyone to think of foliage
before hazardous waste. Chartreuse gets its name from the French liqueur of the
same name. Chartreuse, the liqueur, is made from 130 herbal extracts and it is
this, which gives it its distinctive green color. The liqueur
itself is made by monks of the Grande Chartreuse monastery, which is located in
the Chartreuse Mountains, France. So, from idyllic, leafy, natural, alpine
origins this particularly pungent, violent green drink is born.
The drink -packed with a punch-
has been said to inevitably lead to a relationship with color for its taste, so
complex, leaves one grappling with words to pin point its uniqueness. Words are
not enough. Its uniqueness is as one off as the precise color its name has been
adopted to describe. “Brideshead Revisited”, a novel by Evelyn Waugh, which
was written during the second world war, looks back nostalgically at a past
that was filled with luxury and gluttony- at that time Chartreuse was drunk.
The characters Anthony Blanche and Charles Ryder, two privileged Oxford Alumni,
drink the drink, an imported extravagance. They describe the heady experience
and the complexity of the drink, through comparing it to color. This experience of
inebriation mirrors the sensuous experience of descending/ falling into color. Anthony mulls over the drink, stating, "Real
G-g-green Chartreuse, made before the expulsion of the monks. There are five
distinct tastes as it trickles over the tongue. It is like swallowing a
sp-spectrum."
This association with danger and
the toxic that the liqueur holds means that in its traditional form (non-web color)
it is used as a color to symbolize warning. Hence, it is used on many
contemporary fire engines as opposed to a traditional red. This is due to the
fact that it is in more striking and unnatural a color than red, this makes it
stand out as foreign in any environment. Chartreuse the web- color is precisely
50% green and 50% yellow- this makes it a tertiary color on the RGB color
wheel. Hence once again, despite its natural origins, the legacy of
the herbal green drink has lodged itself as one of the principle colors of the
artificial, technological environment. A place miles from the mountain ranges of France.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Xanadu
Xanadu
Xanadu is a relatively young cool greenish-grey
color which was named in 2001. The color is connected to the Philodendron plant
because the cultivar of the leaves are
the same color. Philodendron grows mainly in Australia and has been used for ceremonial
purposes by the Kubeo tribe in Columbia. Interestingly though, Xanadu is actually named after a Mongolian city.
Xanadu
the city was founded by Kublai Khan in 1625. The name Xanadu is the anglicized
form of Shang-tu, which is what the
Mongolians called it. S.T. Coleridge described Xanadu in his poem Kubla Khan (1861) as a place with a sense
of “magnificence and luxury.” According to
Coleridge’s poem, Xanadu was a fascinating
place with ice cave pleasure domes and
lots of sunlight. In Kubla Khan, the
title character, in a sunny and beautiful garden, is brought a prophecy about an
impending war. Coleridge wrote his poem following an opium-influenced dream at
a time when there was a cultural obsession with the Romantic period. Historical
accuracy aside, Coleridge’s Xanadu shows
the importance of fragments of mind-state.
The
term Xanadu, in the new millennium, belongs
to Theodor Holm Nelson. Nelson’s “Xanadu” encompasses theoretical ideas
pertaining to new technology.
The terms “hypertext”
and “hypermedia,” in relation to the home computer, are two examples of these
ideas. Nelson has been called a web visionary and he is the self-appointed “officer
of the future.” As such, The word “hypertext”
conjures up something radical and technological, with four dimensions, probably
like a “hypercube” or an object diffused into space and time (as in “hyperspace”).
Nelson’s concept of Xanadu is a dynamic, powerful and flexible way of organizing information with intuitive technology. It is a concept that we still haven’t been able to turn into
something useable.
Both uses of Xanadu
symbolize creativity, innovation and the power of dreams. In both Coleridge’s
poem and Nelson’s theories Xanadu is something ideal whether it be
an unrealistically romantic place or a new age, cyberspace theory. While one is
the idealization of the past, the other is an imagining of the future.
LILAC
In 1994 I was 7, and "Grape" was the original scent of the purple colored Magic Scents Crayons from Blinney & Smith Inc. After numerous reports that kids were eating the food-scented crayons the company changed the scent for purple to "lilac". I'm proud to say I wasn't a part of the crayon-eating frenzy. I never went through that humiliating phase. Nonetheless, when I think "lilac", I instantaneously think of the smell. It doesn't want to make me eat it, but I could smell it forever. If these smelly crayons had been a part of my life, I'd have been the kid carrying around a lilac scented crayon as a kind of comfort crutch. It would have turned into a weird nervous habit. Crayon-sniffing. I only have to look at the color, and I can literally smell it without it physically being under my nose.
Syringa, the well-known Greek nymph, clearly knew the power of the fragrant lilac as well. After Pan, God of forests and fields became so enthralled with her that he took to chasing her around the forest (creepy), she turned herself into a fragrant flowering lilac bush to escape his advances. She must have thought he would have been too distracted 'stopping to smell the flowers' as they say, to continue his stalking. Although, why she thought being a flower that he distractedly sniffed was any better, I am unclear.
According to Aisling Dream Interpretation, when dreaming of the color lilac it indicates responsibility. Perhaps that's what The National Association of Dental Faculties had in mind in 1897 when they chose lilac as the profession's major color. A responsibility to keep the teeth of the masses happy and healthy. They even trim dental school graduation gowns and caps in the color. Someone had to be dreaming in lilac.
It's also said that to dream of a lilac flower whether in bloom out of doors or inside in a vase, predicts a broken friendship which will cause you heartache at the time but will subsequently prove to have been a blessing in disguise. This moves right into the fact that often times lilac is associated with first love. Generally, first loves aren't our one and only loves, and when we look back on them in latter years we're grateful they ended even though they're supposedly the most difficult of relationships to get over and move forward from. So when that first love does end, grab a couple bouquets of lilacs because the flowers share connotations of confidence and pride as well, which you're going need a good shot of when you're experiencing that very first heartbreak.
Because they bloom in early spring on the heels of a cold winter, lilac becomes a symbol of hardiness. New Hampshire chose to name the lilac it's state flower to exemplify that very thing in it's citizens and Lombard, Illinois also known as "Lilac Village" has an annual lilac festival and parade in May where the lilac is strongly associated with renewal and fresh starts.
Syringa, the well-known Greek nymph, clearly knew the power of the fragrant lilac as well. After Pan, God of forests and fields became so enthralled with her that he took to chasing her around the forest (creepy), she turned herself into a fragrant flowering lilac bush to escape his advances. She must have thought he would have been too distracted 'stopping to smell the flowers' as they say, to continue his stalking. Although, why she thought being a flower that he distractedly sniffed was any better, I am unclear.
According to Aisling Dream Interpretation, when dreaming of the color lilac it indicates responsibility. Perhaps that's what The National Association of Dental Faculties had in mind in 1897 when they chose lilac as the profession's major color. A responsibility to keep the teeth of the masses happy and healthy. They even trim dental school graduation gowns and caps in the color. Someone had to be dreaming in lilac.
It's also said that to dream of a lilac flower whether in bloom out of doors or inside in a vase, predicts a broken friendship which will cause you heartache at the time but will subsequently prove to have been a blessing in disguise. This moves right into the fact that often times lilac is associated with first love. Generally, first loves aren't our one and only loves, and when we look back on them in latter years we're grateful they ended even though they're supposedly the most difficult of relationships to get over and move forward from. So when that first love does end, grab a couple bouquets of lilacs because the flowers share connotations of confidence and pride as well, which you're going need a good shot of when you're experiencing that very first heartbreak.
Because they bloom in early spring on the heels of a cold winter, lilac becomes a symbol of hardiness. New Hampshire chose to name the lilac it's state flower to exemplify that very thing in it's citizens and Lombard, Illinois also known as "Lilac Village" has an annual lilac festival and parade in May where the lilac is strongly associated with renewal and fresh starts.
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