Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colorization is the gimmick by which a computer and an "art director" team up to apply color to an old black-and-white movie. The colorizers, to their credit, have few pretensions. The idea is to make money. "People don't like black and white," says the president of Colorization Inc. "When we color it, they...
...easel, Matthews has painted in many styles, ranging from figurative portraits to Jackson Pollack gesture paintings. But in the past fews, years he's been working on abstract investigations of the square, some of which hang on the stockroom walls. "What brought about the geometrical painting was a color theory course I took at the Art Institute. You can go on forever with this work," he says...
Disturbing Color Schemes...
Farther down the wall, the other large canvas, "Blue and Orange Combination" hangs majestic, a balanced four squares dominate the work. The different color placement and combination give the paintings wholly different movements and feelings. The repetition of the square--both within works and in the shapes of the canvas--make the paintings vibrate. "It is the color mixtures that gives a sense of movement and space," says Matthews...
Jared A. Silverman, a first year graduate student who had never been to the stockroom before, noticed "16+5" as he waited to purchase a printer ribbon. "I like the geometry of the paintings but I find the color scheme disturbing. The dark--is that black or purple?--is very disturbing. I would have hung the blue and orange one here instead," he says...