Art Activism

Painting is Music is Painting

Mike G. on 11 30, 2009

Color and tone are the essence of painting as pitch and rhythm are of music.For a painter, color is not simply divided into basic and derived (complementary or mixed) colors (like, red, blue, green, brown, etc.). Painters deal practically with pigments, so “blue” for a painter can be any of the blues: phtalocyan, Paris blue, indigo, cobalt, ultramarine, and so on. Psychological, symbolical meanings of color are not strictly speaking means of painting. Colors only add to the potential, derived context of meanings, and because of this the perception of a painting is highly subjective. The analogy with music is quite clear.

I learned about this on wikipedia….I never thought about it like that, but being a musician I was able to see the parallels and abruptly agree.

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