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"Vimeo Waiting," Microsoft Excel, 2010
In 1963 Josef Albers published a book on color theory, and since then color — “pure” color, the mathematical hue — has been the rage in abstract painting and design. In the old (c. ’70 – ’80s) days, painters spent months covering a canvas monochrome, blending, blending away the brush marks. The human hand was a horrible thing, corrupted with subjectively. An MFA in Painting student today is still prone to sit hours in front of their canvas, lamenting over which color to juxtapose another color with, and while I respect that solemn responsibility, I prefer the quick MS excel fix, take Vimeo’s default ‘no signal’ screen.
Now I know many of you impulsively clicked on the arrow, a natural gut reaction, as internet’s interface has turned us all into Pavlov’s dogs (and depending on what porn sites you’re visiting, saliva may not just be a metaphor). It’s strange how a simple sequence of color can cue the brain into thinking there’s more to come — another 5:17 minutes of some “creative” person doing some creative thing with their Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, or, if you can’t afford the software, iMovie. Cobain’s now distant “here we are now entertain us” still has its prophetic ring, as you click, as I click, click for something more.
Color, Cezanne said, “is the place where our brain and the universe meet.” He was talking about the sculptural trajectory of a color’s note in context to the other colors, like how four dashes of different blues become a mountain. He was an old man when he started painting, with obtuse hands and no genius on his side. He changed the western idea of color, and died on a dirt path, leaving his peaches to mold. Yes, I’m being dramatic, but until I’m transported somewhere, and not via an orgy of clicks to a place called nowhere, or at the office fucking with excel, I’ll take dramatic.
Tags: Cezanne, color theory, josef albers, MS excel, Vimeo
Great.
Great.
Jimmy, zzzzippp clicked that arrow a thousand times
Thank you for getting zzzipp to stop clicking the arrow. How can fiction live in a medium where we are all clicking the arrow???
Jimmy, zzzzippp clicked that arrow a thousand times
Thank you for getting zzzipp to stop clicking the arrow. How can fiction live in a medium where we are all clicking the arrow???
Just write from the point of view of the arrow. Yeesh.
Just write from the point of view of the arrow. Yeesh.
the master
the master
Great post, esp: ‘He was talking about the sculptural trajectory of a color’s note in context to the other colors, like how four dashes of different blues become a mountain.’
It made me think that art aspires to induce a sort of synaesthesia.
Writing is a kind of synesthetic art as well but instead of colour it uses signifiers. Not sure im making much sense but I really liked this post a lot, in fact I really like all the art related posts you put up Jimmy Chen. So, um, keep doing it?
re-reading this comment…making me think i sound a little retarded.
Great post, esp: ‘He was talking about the sculptural trajectory of a color’s note in context to the other colors, like how four dashes of different blues become a mountain.’
It made me think that art aspires to induce a sort of synaesthesia.
Writing is a kind of synesthetic art as well but instead of colour it uses signifiers. Not sure im making much sense but I really liked this post a lot, in fact I really like all the art related posts you put up Jimmy Chen. So, um, keep doing it?
re-reading this comment…making me think i sound a little retarded.
Very impressive, especially this Neo-Pavlovism 2.0. I was one of them.
Very impressive, especially this Neo-Pavlovism 2.0. I was one of them.
click click
click click
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http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~dgonze/INFO/htmlcolors.png