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Black color?:
Let’s first see what science says. However, From a physical point of view, the color results from the light reflected by an object. However, THE noirhis. Similarly, Almost all light absorbs and does not return anything or almost to our eye: it “has No wavelength »clean. In addition, No black in a rainbow!
In this sense, black would be the absence of light, therefore lack of color… Consequently, at the other end of the spectrum, White is the addition of all wavelengths.
A lighthouse for modern art – Black color?
This scientific rigor comes up against another reality: art! Furthermore, In the workshops, and in the current language of artists, it is an essential. Consequently, Black is used in the arts from prehistory, from pigments like coal, smokenuts … but black pigments being unstable. easily degrading, they are quite little used until the XIVe centuryexcept to create shadows black color? or contours.
Kasimir Malevitch, Black square on white background1915
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Oil on canvas • 79.5 × 79.5 cm • Coll. Trétiakov State gallery, Moscow
Au XXe century, black has its revolution. Of Kasimir Malévitchinventor of supremacism with his famous Black square on white background (1915) at Black on black (1918) of his contemporary Alexandre Rodtchenko. he established himself as an icon of abstraction.
A genius like Henri Matisse said: “Black is a color”. In December 1946. the Maeght gallery In Paris displays the same speech in an exhibition that borrows this black color? quote by bringing together works by Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Matisse, Georges Rouault – which was going to devote the perception of black in modern art. We could multiply the examples that have shaped our artistic relationship to black. without omitting Pierre Soulagesvirtuoso of the “Outrenoir” in 1979 and a black light passer …
How do we see black?
Anish Kapoor, Descent Into Limbo1992
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black color?
What happens concretely in our head when we observe black? Our brain interprets it as Chromatic qualityas much as red or blue. It is also one of the first distinctions made by the still immature retina of an infant. In industry. design and fashion (from Smoking Saint Laurent to the little Chanel dress), black – Synonymous with elegance and sobriety – sells. Black is therefore a concentrated paradoxes : Absent in the world of physics. he is a cultural star in the Western world and a full material for artists.
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Further reading: The courageous choice of the Fesch palace – [EXPO] Carpentras pays homage to the painter J.- S. Duplessis, child of the country – “Just after his death, I understood that a disappeared artist is a kind of baby to take care of. Otherwise his work disappears in turn ” – Franck Cazenave, inspired by the sky and the ocean – Egregore, the campaign art gallery that defies the decline in the market.
