4.04.2008

MoMa


"Color Chart: Reinventing Color."  That was the name of the exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art which gave a retrospective look at the transformation to standardized manufactured colors.  Before that colors in traditional and non-traditional pieces were very much up to the individual to express their specific idea.  This exhibit featured many artists' experimental projects with color, some leaving their color decisions up to chance or arbitrary means.  The atmosphere was extremely stimulating but quickly waning, with florescent lights and vivid juxtapositions of every color imaginable jammed into every corner of the galleries.  Color still can have a very specific meaning for an individual, whether it's the paints they mix or the shirts they wear.  The art I saw that day made me more appreciative of those personal choices that we make, that are unique to every person's taste.  The idea of mass-producing color limits the individual, which is an interesting subject to take on in a piece of art, however I found myself uninterested by the impersonal quality of those there.  My personal ideals in color are that of personal expression, not in pleasing the majority.  

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