Lyra Morgan

Contemporary Art

colour

Yves Klein knew some things!

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What Yves Klein says about colour really resonates with me . . .

“For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.… Nuances can be gentle, evil, violent, majestic, vulgar, calm, etc. In sum, each nuance of each color is definitely a "presence," a living being, an active force which is born and dies after having lived a sort of drama of the life of colors. Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state."  Yves Klein

When I a paint, it does feel like the painting takes on a life of its own and once complete - the character and energy it exudes can change the way a space feels.  

I also appreciate Klein’s many thoughts about blue being special . . .

“Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not… …all colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract . . . we can never touch blue of sea or sky so it is as beguiling, it is the great beyond.  Just experience it and enjoy it and open your eyes to the great blue beyond”.

I am aware of blue being this ‘great beyond’ as it does feel infinite and as an artist that is so exciting; knowing that I will never tire of my journeys through and in paint!

Big news! I'm starting a painting in a colour other then blue!!

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It must be because Spring is in the air - as for the first time in a number of years, I am actually starting a painting in a colour other then blue! I suspect blue will make its way into the painting at some point though. Sometimes, I don’t work on a theme like water. Sometimes it is all about the colour. Can’t imagine a world without colour, I wonder how much we take it for granted? Today I am celebrating colour - one of life’s pleasures is to take a blank canvas and create a splash!