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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Kandinsky, Wassily on 08 12th, 2009 | No Comments

The Principle of Internal Necessity...

Kandinsky writes: …It is clear that the harmony of colors can only be based upon the principle of purposefully touching the human soul. ~ On the Spiritual in Art, 1912
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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Pearce, Cyril on 07 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Cyril Pearce on Colour...

The mystery of colour, with its fluctuating phenomena, has been a favourite subject for speculation from the earliest time, for it has been, and still is, associated with rituals, feasts, and the whole gamut of the emotions. To-day it occupies the attention of the physicist, the psychologist, and the...
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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Form, Light and Shade, Ruskin, John on 07 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Ruskin on Form and Colour...

Every visible space, be it dark or light, is a space of colour of some kind, or of black or white.  And you have to enclose it with a true outline, and to paint it with its true colour. ~ Lectures on Art,  1870
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Posted by @stonefly in Clausen, George, Colour, Light and Shade, Rembrandt on 05 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Clausen on Rembrandt...

Rembrant’s eye seems to have been always attracted to the point of light, or the source of light, when the actual colours of objects were rather suggested than seen, or if the light shone on objects it was always focussed on the principal parts by shadows; and we find his works characterised by...
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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Henri, Robert on 05 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Robert Henri on Colors...

…there is power in the palette which is composed of both pure and grave colors that makes it wonderfully practical and which presents possibilities unique to itself…In paintings made with such a palette, if used with great success, we find an astounding result.  It is the grave colors, which...
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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Expression in Art, Form, Kandinsky, Wassily, Matisse, Henri on 03 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Cézanne & Matisse: Painters of Pi...

Cézanne, the seeker after new laws of form…He knows how to create a living being out of a teacup — or rather, how to recognize such a being within this cup. He can raise “still-life” to a level where externally “dead” objects come internally alive. He treats these...
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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Expression in Art, Form, Itten, Johannes on 03 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Itten on Form and Color...

As it is true of the three primary colors, red, yellow and blue, the three fundamental shapes — square, triangle and circle — may be assigned distinct expressive values…The square corresponds to red, the color of matter.  The weight and opacity of red agree with the static and grace...
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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Form, Kandinsky, Wassily on 02 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Kandinsky on Colour and Space...

Colour plays its part in painting in the guise of paint. Space — in the guise of form, delineating space (”painterly”), or drawing. These two elements — colour and form — are the essential, eternal, immutable language of painting. ~ Content and Form, 1909
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Posted by @stonefly in Beauty, Clausen, George, Colour, Drawing, Royal Academy lectures, Truth on 02 8th, 2009 | No Comments

George Clausen on Colour...

The rules of drawing are fairly definite, and we may claim to know what constitutes good and accurate drawing; but it is not at all easy to define in what good colouring consists. One cannot go further than say that it must be harmonious, and that it must convey the impression of truth to nature. One...
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Posted by @stonefly in Colour, Ruskin, John, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Turner, J M W on 01 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Ruskin on Colour Without Form...

How far is it possible for the painter to represent those mountains of Shelley as the poet sees them, “mingling their flames with twilight,” I cannot say; but my impression is, that there is no true abstract mode of considering colour and that all the loss of form in the works of Titian and...
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