Painting / From Darkness Comes

Ottawa Rock Art

11 June 2013 16:37

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2009
"FROM DARKNESS COMES"

These paintings were cbegan with a black undertone. The focus of colour as a form, inspired by the Fauvists & Abstract Expressionist panting of the early 20thC.

Kandinsky was a major influence, with his book,"On the spirit in art", and his colour theory. For Kandinsky, colour had sound, and resonnated with the spirit.

"Hearing colours speak."
Colour theory by Kandinsky

Yellow – “warm,” “cheeky and exciting,” and warm,”
Green – peace, stillness, passive.
Blue – “typical heavenly color”, The lighter it is, the more calming it is.
Red – restless, glowing, alive, “male maturity”
Brown – dull, hard, inhibited.
Orange – radiant, serious, healthy.
Violet – “morbid, extinguished, sad”
White – “It is not a dead silence, but one pregnant with the harmony of silence.
Grey – is soundless and motionless, but it differs from green, and expresses a hopeless stillness.