please empty your brain below
- Gerhard Richter (who created lots of color charts)
It's still not better than the paint tube poster for the Tate.
Around 90% of this critique comes from text used to describe previous artworks on the covers of tube maps.
Surly we should congratulate TfL on their recycling efforts!
I just thought it looked pretty!
"... with its fifteen discrete blocks of colour, creating an extraordinary chromatic experience ... the fifteen unique blocks of colour are executed in enamel paint which impacts a glossy sheen that makes them hover in front of the eyes
... [he] began to remove the representational responsibilities of colour and instead began to investigate the relative roles of each and every colour ... increasingly used colour without mediation, celebrating its autonomy and dissociating it from its traditional descriptive, symbolic and expressive tasks ... the colour distribution into autonomous units maintain a distinctly arbitrary, anti-compositional feeling to it
... conception rooted in his everyday existence, ... ready-made abstract paintings, offer in a witty retort to Pop. ... ‘for me it was obvious that I had to wipe out the details. I was happy to have a method that was rather mechanical. In that regard I owe something to Warhol. He legitimized the mechanical. He showed me how it is done. It is a normal state of working, to eliminate things. But Warhol showed me this modern way of letting details disappear, or at least he validated its possibilities’
... could certainly be read as magnifications of their source on a monumental scale, akin to the enlarging of everyday media imagery undertaken by Warhol and Lichtenstein, his choice to do away with the indexical characteristics of these objects completely detaches them from their humble origins."
"The shiny, flawless surface of the enamel paint squares against the untreated background further distills the empirical logic that governs the work, likening it more to a color chart or a sample kit than to a narrative or expressive painting."
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