Reflection on Color
Cruz-Diez, Carlos
2nd Eng. ed. Houston: Cruz-Diez Foundation, 2023, p.11
ISBN: 9780300272123
Trained as a painter, Carlos Cruz-Diez developed a conceptual platform for his work based on optical and chromatic phenomena, which led him to take a revolutionary new approach to his work beginning in 1959. Building on the chromatic and light experiments of figures such as Sir Isaac Newton, the impressionists, and Josef Albers, Cruz-Diez explored the perception of color as an autonomous reality evolving in space and time, unaided by form or support, in a perpetual present.
Color revealed itself as a powerful means to stimulate the perception of "reality." Our conception of reality today is not that of 12th-century man, for whom life was a step towards eternity. On the contrary, we believe in the ephemeral, with no past and no future, and where everything changes and is transformed in an instant.
The perception of color reveals such notions. It highlights space, ambiguousness and ephemeral and unstable conditions, whilst underpinning myths and affections.
Cruz-Diez - Reflexion on Color, 1989, p.11
Originally published in Spanish in 1989, Reflection on Color details Cruz-Diez's theories of color and traces the aesthetic and conceptual evolution of his practice. In this text, Cruz-Diez explores eight of his major investigations into color phenomena, including his signature, the Physichromies and Chromosaturation series.
Generously illustrated with examples of Cruz-Diez's work, this new English edition of Cruz-Diez's classic book introduces the artist's writing and thinking to a new generation of artists and scholars.
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