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Posted in Ponderings on May 31st, 2007
You can still find Goethe’s Farbenlehre (Theory of Color) 1810, all over the place in modern art supply stores. It was written as an outspoken opposition to Newton’s theory that color is function of light.
It has some fundamental flaws. Surely compliments give clues to harmonies? (”Quite calling me Shirley” sorry had to do [...]
Posted in Ponderings on May 29th, 2007
Since we are taught in art school the colors are universal and have fundamental harmonies. Let’s start with a test of universality. Match on color to one thing, some things don’t have color matches:
colors:
yellow
green
red
white
blue
things:
sun
plants
earth
water
fire
cloud
sky
Should be pretty easy. But most westerners almost certainly made two fundamental mistakes. While traveling in Ladakh, a [...]
Posted in Ponderings on May 27th, 2007
My current work highlights change in new ways. In April at the Photolucida Portfolio review, I was talking about my work to a curator. I mentioned that my work also had time changing, he quickly jump to the conclusion that I was portraying the passage of time. He said, “come on that [...]
Posted in Other Openings on May 24th, 2007
Last Saturday the Mississippi:May show opened in a north Mississippi neighborhood warehouse in Portland. 15 artists showed work in a huge 50,000 square foot warehouse. M:M was organized by graffiti artist Joshua Wallace and aimed to show artists who aren’t showing in the Portland galleries.
Portland’s Willamette Week wrote this preview.
Here are a few [...]
Posted in Music on May 23rd, 2007
A new documentary called “Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten” is now showing in the UK, I can’t wait till it crosses the pond. Joe Strummer was co-founder and lead singer of The Clash. Epic Records once proclaimed The Clash as “The Only Band That Matters”.
There is a BBC podcast about the [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on May 22nd, 2007
I didn’t take many images during the Portland 1st thursday art gallery openings in Portland (May 2007).
At the end of the evening I headed to the Everett Station Lofts. Here are a few images from Vorpal Space
Posted in Main on May 22nd, 2007
Welcome. More to come by mid June. In the mean time, please look at my fine art photography: www.bradcarlile.com