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Contraire, a new way
The most revolutionary idea ever in art.
This new way of painting is the second change ever of a basic element of art--bigger than the one made famous by Monet, who, by painting with little bits of color, de-emphasized the elements of object and detail and created a revolution in the late 19th century.
Why are these paintings the most revolutionary ever in art?
They reverse a basic element of art, the object/color relationship.
In all other pictures, the color fits the object (fits the chair, tree, drawing, etc.)
Contraire turns that around. The color is now the drawing, and the chair or tree is the color. A silhouette picture has a similar effect. Contraire takes that to its ultimate conclusion.
This is the second change ever of a basic element of art, a bigger change than the one made famous by Claude Monet, who, by painting with little bits of color, de-emphasized the elements of object and detail and created a revolution in the late 19th century.
Aristotle had it right, when he stated that all colors were nothing more than various mixtures of black and white, and compared the colors to flavors.
He tried to explain why this was so using only the things known to him, but people threw his explanation in the trash when they discovered prisms—
But I agree with Aristotle, and color is only a perception anyway. It’s how we perceive waves of energy of various wavelengths. Like Aristotle, it seems obvious to me that the only thing common to all colors and all shades of colors is that all of them contain various degrees of white or black, making them lighter or darker.
Contrairism
A new way of painting, derived from the the French word for opposite, contraire.
One of the strangest things I discovered along the way is how little is known about color perception. Some animals see colors we can’t even see. What are those anyway.
