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evolution of colour in art

Osip Brik's Photography versus Painting - 1926 says that even the most "gifted painter cannot achieve the degree of reproduction of which the camera is capable...Painting cannot transpose real colours. It can only copy-more or less...The colour media with which a painter works (oil, watercolour, size) have different effect on our eyes than the rays of light which give diverse colours to objects. However much the painter tries he or she cannot go beyond the narrow limits of the palette." - i agree with this and it goes to show that even if painting cannot transpose real colours so how can a computer, and if a paint palette has limits- what sort of limits does a computer palette have?

http://clarissa-b.blogspot.com/2010/02/evolution-of-idea-of-art.html:
Walter Benjamin’s, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction- the main idea he raised was to show the way art changes when it is reproduced. He speaks of being lost in translation- and i agree.

Osip Brik's From Picture to Calico-print. He talks about the role of calico print and easel artists'.Brik thinks that the easel-painting serve no purpose other than pleasing the eye. The easel-painting’s defense was this: without them, there would be no secondary forms of art ( agit poster, sketches for calico prints, and book covers.) Easel paintings are the basis of our art culture. Secondly, the easel artists argue that all artists, no matter their medium, must be a master of all art culture. The easel artist is at the base of all cultural paintings. Brik disagrees with the easel-paintings argument. Why does one have to learn the art of easel painting before he can make a still-life? Painting is an art, not a science. It is not necessary. In the end, he comes to a conclusion that the future is being made in factories and not in the attic studio.

about colour

colour is always considered

after looking at these books i realised that colour is deeply taken into account for a lot of things, esp for houses and remodeling to create environments. this shows the power colour has when its in front of you, however seeing these colours just printed in the form of a book is not as powerful, just as the page showing 'assertive' colours the colours are bright and loud but i feel it would be more 'assertive' if i was put in front of a brightly coloured wall.

this one is based on the use of the words that people gave as their reaction to blue, and using those key words i created words of tiles which can be moved around. its would act like an interactive piece and people could adjust their words either from positive to negative or the way they want to because everyone reads a story and builds up a picture in their own way, and using that they could photograph and place the photo on the wall so people can see peoples different ways of seeing things.

this next experiment is using the key word from the first and last memory of peoples responses and people can form a sentence or long sentence or short story. and again, take a photograph to then place on the wall for others to see.

this is based on the idea of a flip book and the top half of the book refers to a persons first memory and the bottom half relates to the most recent memory and people can form a new story and meaning to blue.

this next idea is based on replacing the differences between people by washing them out in a colour and then overlapping their responses in the form of text.