Sunday October 17, 2010 at 11:45

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ajnabee: “Optical color is based on relations of value (light­dark); the hand that holds the brush is dominated by the eye, and hence by the mind. As Jay Bernstein put it in a different context, ‘it abstracts line (as boundary, border, limit) and color from colored things, and by extension discounts the sensuous particularity of things, and hence their thingliness ….’ As he points out further, whatever occurs in the perceiver — color included ­­ necessarily comes with the baggage of culture. Haptic color (‘colorism’) on the other hand is a force of permutation and modulation that is based on relations of hue or tone (warm­cold) rather than value. As Deleuze defined it, “Colorism” means not only that relations are established between colors (as in every painting worthy of this name), but that color itself is discovered to be the variable relation, the differential relation, on which everything else depends. The formula of the colorists is: if you push color to its pure internal relations (hot-cold, expansion-contraction), then you have everything. In haptic color, the hand moves almost automatically; neither hand nor eye is subordinate. For Deleuze logic of haptic color is that of sensation itself, the time of pure becoming. Not only that. Haptic color depends on the material properties of paint, a colored thing. Color becomes a thing in itself, with a rhythm and life of its own and this is what modern artists like Bacon develop.” -Black or White orTechnicolor, Marty Slaughter

ajnabee:

“Optical color is based on relations of value (light­dark); the hand that holds the brush is dominated by the eye, and hence by the mind. As Jay Bernstein put it in a different context, ‘it abstracts line (as boundary, border, limit) and color from colored things, and by extension discounts the sensuous particularity of things, and hence their thingliness ….’ As he points out further, whatever occurs in the perceiver — color included ­­ necessarily comes with the baggage of culture.

Haptic color (‘colorism’) on the other hand is a force of permutation and modulation that is based on relations of hue or tone (warm­cold) rather than value. As Deleuze defined it,

“Colorism” means not only that relations are established between colors (as in every painting worthy of this name), but that color itself is discovered to be the variable relation, the differential relation, on which everything else depends. The formula of the colorists is: if you push color to its pure internal relations (hot-cold, expansion-contraction), then you have everything.

In haptic color, the hand moves almost automatically; neither hand nor eye is subordinate. For Deleuze logic of haptic color is that of sensation itself, the time of pure becoming. Not only that. Haptic color depends on the material properties of paint, a colored thing. Color becomes a thing in itself, with a rhythm and life of its own and this is what modern artists like Bacon develop.” -Black or White orTechnicolor, Marty Slaughter

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