visual diary 📱📝 20250510

10 May 2025
I visited the exhibition "Colors: Uncovering the Secrets of Color," which explores "color" and the "harmony between colors."

The works on display were created between the 1830s and 2024.
The exhibition was structured in a way that clearly showed how many different approaches there are to engaging with light and the materials used to express color.😉

The explanatory texts were also full of insightful words.

The sentence, "Impressionist painters, including Claude Monet, pursued the possibilities of independent color expression by denying the inherent colors of objects and expressing the colors of subjects as they shifted with the light," left a particularly strong impression on me.

Artists known as Impressionists capture the light, color, or atmosphere of a moment and express that impression boldly.
They place more importance on the expression of light and color than on realistically depicting details.
I knew that "Impressionism" refers to a style that conveys the impression as it is to the viewer through that kind of expression, but
reading this explanation today, I thought it was cool how they shifted their perspective and tried to grasp things from a different dimension.

"Denying the inherent color of an object" is an idea that could not be reached without a sharp question.

I became interested in the background of that question—the stance of trying to move toward new forms of expression and the will to deviate from established frameworks.

Not "what to paint," but "how to see."

I was struck by the realization that having that kind of perspective is, in itself, a form of expression.💡

I felt that such an artist's stance also stimulates our own "observation."

Yayoi Kusama, "Infinity Mirrored Room" (2020)
Bernard Frize, "Ijo" (2020)
Claude Monet, "The Grand Canal" (1908) *detail

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