Liz West splits white light in “Our Spectral Vision” into pulsing vertical prisms which change colour as the visitor moves around them, creating a wide variety of tones derived from the seven basic colours of the humans spectrum, noting that this is a human perspective – some animals see more; some see less. “Colour and […]
Reflections, lights, colours and shapes brought the sunshine of California to the dark cold winter of Edinburgh at the Fruitmarket Gallery. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, artists in California such as Robert Irwin and Larry Bell were experimenting with minimal materials using colour, lighting, reflections and geometry in a movement known appropriately as “Light and […]
The modern vision of pure white classical sculpture and architecture is conditioned by classical statues galleries in museums, palaces and historic homes and by collections of plaster casts, for example in the Victoria and Albert Museum where the building is richly-coloured but the casts – whether classical, gothic or renaissance – are generally uncoloured. In […]
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