Visit the FIGURING LIGHT, Colour and The Intangible Exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside. Choose a piece of work and write 200 words about the artist use of colour and light.
When you look at this painting for the first time, you instantly focus on the stronger colours in the centre. This is because the artist uses bold colours and dark shadows which absorb more light that the outer colours. Rebecca Partridge has used many different colours in this painting. Each shape is made up of shades of a colour and the combination of contrasting and complementary colours give the painting depth and create a strong focal point. The first place your eyes focus on is the white shape in the middle of the painting.
When looking deeper into the concept/idea behind this painting, Rebecca Partridge has used a combination colour and light to create intensity and to make you concentrate on the centre of the painting. This intensity towards the centre of the painting, could relate to an explosion or a sound blast of some sort. The fact that the outer colours are brighter show that the further away from the centre you are the less intensive it is.
Take two photographs based on a theme of your choice. Using Photoshop change and replace the colours to express complementary pairs of colours. Explain your choice of colours.
What are complementary pairs of colours? Lets ask the wonderful Wikipedia...
'Complementary colours are pairs of colours that are of 'opposite' hue in some colour model. The exact hue 'complementary' to a given hue depends on the model in question, and perceptually uniform, additive, and subtractive colour models, for example, have differing complements for any given color.
- red complements (blue + yellow) = green
- blue complements (red + yellow) = orange
- yellow complements (red + blue) = purple'
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Above is the original photograph and below are the two photographs with their colour replaced.
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