MOCP Jan Tichy


i think the colors in this photo are realistic because it doesn't seem that the photographer manipulated them in any way. it seems like a candid snapshot from the beach, the figures don't seem to be too aware of the camera. the red bathing suit stands out, and immediately catches the viewers attention, and the fact that it is in the center reinforces that.  

 I find the colors in this image to be symbolic because of the white dresses that can be interpreted as purity and innocence. that theme goes well with what the figures seem to be doing, which is covering the woman's face, showing a sort of conservativeness. the white dresses stand out by contrasting with the dark background, highlighting the whiteness' significance.

the colors in this photograph seems to be expressive. the photo is quite monochromatic yet the lighting still seems quite dramatic. the lighting also makes the animal look elegant and fragile and the same time. i think the overall feeling the expressive colors in this image are portraying is delicate beauty.

an artist working with BLACK

vincent como works with black pretty exclusively:
http://vincentcomo.com/home.html

date at MCA

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!

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!

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:

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!

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.

http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/category.aspx?ca=88

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.