matisse, mondrian sale

Please see url below to see the article on Yves Saint Laurent art sale in Paris.  A Matisse sold for 41 million dollars and a Mondrian sold for 25 million.

http://news.aol.com/article/yves-saint-laurent-auction-matisse/353481

Theresa

Playing with Chance Image Gallery

If by chance...

After discussing some ideas about chance interactions in art, science, religion, and politics, we are now pursuing our own chance encounter by creating chance color wheels to develop chance color structures. What range of colors and combinations will be generated by our group? How will chance processes figure in to our work?




To read more on chance, check out the following articles:
Chance Imagery by fluxus artist George Brecht


Rolling the Dice: An Interview with Jackson Lears
by David Serlin; Cabinet Magazine, Issue 19 Fall 2005


To read more on John Cage, check some of these links.
A conversation with John Cage and Joan Retallack
pbs's page on John Cage
A collection of links to infomation on John Cage compiled by Josh Ronsen

To see more interviews and performances, YouTube has a good selection.

color matters

Hello everyone,

I found an interesting website called Color Matters.  www.colormatters.com

Check it out!

Theresa

Blue

When the Apollo astronauts made their voyages to the moon and took photographs like this - the blue marble, we earthlings began to think differently about our "home." As a sphere the Earth seems more fragile, more beautiful, more unique in the darkness of space. We also began to think globally -- to see the world as a whole. Well we're still working on that one....

Error Message - help

Help! I tried to access the indigo blue web-site and got the following error message: bX-palx5s. Did anyone have the same problem?

indigo blue

Check out Ann Hamilton's project Indigo Blue at the San Francisco MOMA's website to help you answer your homework questions.

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Here are some additional works by artists working with the color blue. What metaphors and symbolic associations do the works evoke for you?

subtractive primaries gallery

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In our last class, we examined several color systems and their primary colors. We're now doing in depth investigations into variations of temperature, saturation, and value for the subtractive primaries red, yellow, and blue. Here are works by some of the artists we looked at in class for inspiration.