Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Museum of Science, the show is basic bring-the-kids. It has all the colorful optical illusions that I first encountered in the Tootsie Roll ads under "Metropolis Mailbag" in Superman comics: the same color seeming lighter or darker according to its background, a green, black and orange flag that makes you see red, white and blue when you look away. A prism breaks white light into the color spectrum, and a sodium vapor lamp turns everyone's skin yellow. There are lots of fun knobs to turn and fun buttons to push, and color TV excerpts from ZOOM...
...Museum of Science frustrates the viewer, the Fogg overwhelms him. Taking one aspect of color in the world-that of color in painting-Howard Fisher of the Graduate School of Design, who set up the exhibit, tries to give some understanding of the way artists use color by examining the theories of the late Fine Arts professor, Arthur Pope...
...Pope also created a way of assessing the role of color in the visual organization of a painting. His theories are extremely complicated-they take up 127 pages of explanation in the catalogue under paragraphs headed "Limited Range of Hue and Intensity" or "The Relative Nature of Color Perception." Basically, Pope developed a structure of color inter-relationships-his "color solid," a cylinder that plots out the place of the three components of color-hue, intensity and value-in three dimensions...
...INTENSITY and value are the keys to any understanding of how color operates in art, and it is the fatal flaw of this show that it gives no clear definition of those three words. Very simply, hue is what shade-blue, green, red, yellow. Value refers to how close to white or black the hue is, and intensity is how pure the hue is-how free it is from dilution with white or black...
...visual. The exhibit uses familiar works from the Fogg's collection-works by Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Copley and Tiepolo-as examples of these modes. The idea is grand, but a grand result never materializes. The exhibit is not organized with the idea that someone who knows nothing about color might want to explore it. That jargon is obscure and not explained is one example of this; another is that the pictures are all numbered, but not hung in numerical order-it's disorienting when no. 7 leads to no. 33. And whoever wrote the captions for the paintings needs...