First and primary colors

+ GREEN

Dialogue with Serge Lemoyne. Dialogue on colors, dialogue about Matisse' dialogue.

Snapped up by the energy of his paintings discovered in the Quebec Fine Arts museum, Serge Lemoyne exhibition, november of 2021

I wanted to answer to its gestural and material vitality . He was playing painting, always  playing games. It's my turn !

  BLUE 

  Plastic100%Art, dimensions : 95 X 135 cm  

In default of Gold, here is the Yellow. Curious color. The most fragile of colors, moreover does it exist?

In printing work it is one of the three primary colors: Yellow, Cyan, Magenta + Black on White paper. Optical mixtures in four-color reproduction use them in dots and screens. In painting Yellow, Red, Blue are mixed in all kinds of colors including the complementary Orange, Violet, Green. The addition of colors extinguishes their light towards a brown-black... in subtractive mixtures. The colors are playing, returning the received light. Painting is a sport! !

Here is the yellow,  symbolic light, shining sun of the children drawings. a touch of blue makes yellow turn into green and the yellow touched by red becomes orange. Almost non-existent color, blending tool.

It's in New York Yellow established itself as material and essential color. Color of stridency, palpable color of extreme vibrations.

   

On the screen system, emitted light, additive mixture,YELLOW DISAPEARS . The 3 primary colors are Red, Green, Blue.  Add of colors moves towards white. 

YELLOW where are you ?

 Green ... as nature, leaves and grass. Here,  artificial, plastic and plastic arts greens.
 Green ... complémentary color of red, mixing yellow and blue tells the painter.
 Green ... primay color en emitted light responding to our eyes cones ... visual arts icons ?

Plastic100%Art      dimensions : 90 X 170 cm

> see colors BLUE     RED     YELLOW     ORANGE     GREEN     PURPLE  BLACK and WHITE