Yes it’s true. In the mean time I have had a very interesting tutorial with Professor Douglas Allsop and these are some suggested findings and researches…..
- Six prisons in color, Acrylic, day-glo, pearlescent, metallic acrylic, roll-a-tex on canvas, 190.5 x 190.5 cm
Peter Halley and Neo-Geo who likes to do things that deal with social, economic and other kinds of systems. In an article in the New York Times online archive from 1987 he says:
‘Simulation, the fact of technical mediation replacing the natural thing, is such a big experience in our society. Air conditioning is a simulation of air; movies are a simulation of life; life is simulated by bio-mechanical manipulations’
I like to think of Dulux like that, my work is very much concerned with what is considered real or artificial and the hierarchy within aesthetics and specifically the way colour and form relates to the spaces it may occupy.
- Ittens colour wheel
I have also been searching for a book called The Art of Colour by Johannes Itten which looks like some kind of colour theory bible, luckily they finally have at Southampton Row Library! Johannes Itten taught the preliminary course at the Bauhaus between 1919 and 1922. Itten extended Adolf Hozels colour wheel and related colour to emotional values that are now part of our unconcious when describing colour. because of this Ittens teachings are associated with cosmetic colour.
Other colour charts to consider are Ral which is where Dulux originates from but more on that later….
As a final thought here are a few gems which will lead to my next post which will be about functionality: furniture & art.
- Installation: Allan Ruppersberg (furniture) & John Armleder (wallpaper)
- Tobias Rehberger
- John Armleder wall paper
Wow! I love that Allan Ruppersberg & John Armleder pic! We should do things like this. x