shades of grey and relative color
Black & White Days – enlarge – Digital Painting / Art Prints – 2006
I guess if I can talk about the typical color around here and show a painting with a flourish of color – which is both here and not seen, I can just as easily move to a piece that was intentionally done in black and white.
Color is relative – meaning the colors adjacent change the color one is looking at – both the power and trouble with colored matting. Black and white for most of us is more a construct of our understanding – black and white thinking – doesn’t really allow for all the shades of grey.
However, there is something really powerful in just black and white – the world is simplified and bold. I suppose its simplicity also helps us to appreciate how complex and rich a world with color really is.
Having said all this – it is rather obvious that above has many shades of grey.
See Also
- Black & White Thinking: Reducing Categories to Either/Or – Flaws in Reasoning and Arguments – found this to be a thoughtful discussion about the subject – how this relates to art is more my discussion
- Absolute Pitch / Relative Color – scroll down this is quite an interesting subject – more about absolute memory, but still makes you wonder since context is such a part of perception
- Digital Painting in Black and White – the only other piece I have featured done in black and white – from pieces of a dream – kind of a black and white Outhouse Studios
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