I've always felt a strong connection to this piece of artwork*. I have thought about it on and off for over a year now. I saw it a few times and then didn't see it again until this weekend when it came up for sale.I love it for many wonderful subjective and abstract reasons. Just ask sometime and I'll be glad to share them.
Isn't it just beautiful, though? This piece echoes my love of sea-shells and marine life, pearls, flowers, fragility, free-form, spontaneity, etc. These tones and shapes are scattered throughout my home and frequently show up in my jewelry and artwork: 
One of the earliest pieces of art to burn an image in my memory was Botticelli's Birth of Venus. I even see some of this painting in the piece of art:
The new piece of art also represents my preferred color palate: watery blues, weathered browns, warm cream tones each with a hint of iridescent patina inferring age. Each of these colors has been naturally represented in time since the dawn of creation. I love them for their physical beauty, and I love them for their abstract beauty. I dream in these colors, I am calmed by these colors, I love these colors.
I am reminded of what Johann Itten had following to say about the preferred color palate:
“To help a student discover his subjective forms and colors is to help him discover himself.”
“If subjective timbre is significant of a person’s inner being, then much of his mode of thought, feeling and action can be inferred from his color combinations. intrinsic constitution and structures are reflected in the colors, which are generated by dispersion and filtration of the white light of life and by electromagnetic vibrations in the psycho-physiological medium of the individual.”
Even if you're not as sold out to the idea as me and Johann Itten, maybe you can see how at least part of it might be true? You might give it some thought. What are the recurring shapes and colors of your own color palate? What do they mean to you? What do they say about you?
I am reminded of what Johann Itten had following to say about the preferred color palate:
“To help a student discover his subjective forms and colors is to help him discover himself.”
“If subjective timbre is significant of a person’s inner being, then much of his mode of thought, feeling and action can be inferred from his color combinations. intrinsic constitution and structures are reflected in the colors, which are generated by dispersion and filtration of the white light of life and by electromagnetic vibrations in the psycho-physiological medium of the individual.”
Even if you're not as sold out to the idea as me and Johann Itten, maybe you can see how at least part of it might be true? You might give it some thought. What are the recurring shapes and colors of your own color palate? What do they mean to you? What do they say about you?
*Michael Baker is the artist. If you'd like his contact information let me know and I'll be glad to send it your way. He will be participating in the Final Friday art show this month at Bella Luz. The show opens Friday August 27 and runs through September. His affordable pieces are all different---traditional and abstract---with varying colors and lots of raku firing patina. Here's another small piece I bought from Michael: 
1 comment:
oh my that is beautiful Melanie..the color palette is very organic as is the shape and feel of it..it looks like it exploded into being. really wonderful~
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