Posted in art galleries, my art updates on May 30th, 2013
La Fototeca has blogged about my work in Spanish & English with a selection of my work. You can read the full blog here: http://blog.lafototeca.org/2013/05/introducing-brad-carlile-from-fotolucida.html Here are just a few excerpts: Brad nos reta. Brad challenges us. Después de todo, a través de sus imágenes, estás viendo el tiempo pasar transformado en color. ¿Cada cuánto […]
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Posted in Misc on Sep 25th, 2008
Today is Mark Rothko’s birthday, September 25th. It has been 105 years since he was born. Rothko’s work must be seen in person. Little jpgs just are blocks of color, but his paintings are really so much more. Rothko painted intimate paintings, that is why there were painted so large. He once said that the […]
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Posted in Ponderings on Jun 13th, 2007
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 […]
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Posted in Ponderings on Jun 6th, 2007
When a young girl, my niece loved pink. Every piece of clothing, every toy, everything had to be pink. My mom said it was just in her DNA. So let’s look at the western history of what color represents male and female: 18th century Gobineau: (female=black, male=white) 1809 Philipp Otto Runge: (female=blue/violet, male=yellow/orange) 1910 Franz […]
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Posted in Ponderings on Jun 4th, 2007
We are taught human vision is wonderful and near perfect. We all like to believe we are unique and special. We are only tri-chromatic which means we really only have 3 color sensors (cones) in our eyes. Birds are tetra-chromatic and some butterflies are even penta-chromatic. Feeling left out like I do? As it turns […]
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Posted in Ponderings on Jun 3rd, 2007
In 1820, Turner believed in 3 primaries: yellow, red, blue. Artists of this generation liked the idea of irreduceable number of elements. Turner went further because each had meanings blue=distance, red=material, yellow=light/medium. OK, toss his meanings, everyone talks of primary colors, only a few paints are needed mixed to make other colors, must be true. […]
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Posted in Ponderings on Jun 1st, 2007
At least Newton realized that color is intrinsically subjective (see previous posting), surely the great scientist didn’t twist his work for romantic notions. Did you know Newton divided the color spectrum into 7 parts ROYGBIV, analogous to 7 notes CDEFGAB, because he wanted a one-to-one correspondence of color with music. Too bad our brain is […]
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Posted in Ponderings on May 31st, 2007
You can still find Goethe’s Farbenlehre (Theory of Color) 1810, all over the place in modern art supply stores. It was written as an outspoken opposition to Newton’s theory that color is function of light. It has some fundamental flaws. Surely compliments give clues to harmonies? (“Quite calling me Shirley” sorry had to do the […]
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Posted in Ponderings on May 29th, 2007
Since we are taught in art school the colors are universal and have fundamental harmonies. Let’s start with a test of universality. Match on color to one thing, some things don’t have color matches: colors: yellow green red white blue things: sun plants earth water fire cloud sky Should be pretty easy. But most westerners […]
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