Last night, I was preparing the image “Multiverse” for a new postcard (it recently won a Fine Art Abstract award at Prix de la Photographie Paris, Px3).
But if colors were truly primary, I would not have been fighting with color adjustments late last night. Simply put, 3 or 4 primary pigments are not enough to represent what we can see — so they can’t be primary. Next time you hear a printer remind you that CMYK doesn’t have as much gamut as RGB on your screen you know that is a code phrase for “there aren’t primary colors, or secondary either”.
I went by Powell’s Books today to look for John Gage’s new book which they didn’t have, but I saw that the 3 copies of his previous color book had been sold. “Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism” by John Gage (ISBN 0-520-22611-9). In a previous blog I recommended it for any art student really interested in color. Cool, hopefully some Portlanders took me up my recommendation.
Does anyone have any thoughts or a review of John Gage’s 2006 book “Color in Art” ? If so, post a comment, I’d appreciate it.
