It took a long time to create the final work. This part was an in-depth exploration of what interests me most about art - the emotions conveyed through the material.
I tried to discard everything unnecessary and leave only that which could communicate with the viewer at his level without an interpreter and dictionary or the help of guides in the gallery. Something that would speak directly with the viewer's soul and heart.
Changing the shape of the canvas, using ready-made materials, or digital technology interferes with pure colour and direct communication with the viewer. Because they create multiple contexts, and the viewer's brain switches to everything but does not focus on his emotions. But it is better when we start our research from the particular, the small, the single. When we begin to look first at ourselves, and then at the environment around us, this is the path to understanding. As Rothko said, a big painting is not for making an impression or making a statement, proclaiming something, but for one person who stands in front of the work and plunges not into colour, but himself.
Colour is the characteristic of visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple. This perception of color derives from the stimulation of photoreceptor cells (in particular cone cells in the human eye and other vertebrate eyes) by electromagnetic radiation (in the visible spectrum in the case of humans). Color categories and physical specifications of color are associated with objects through the wavelengths of the light that is reflected from them and their intensities. This reflection is governed by the object's physical properties such as light absorption, emission spectra, etc. … The color of an object depends on both the physics of the object in its environment and the characteristics of the perceiving eye and brain.
(Wikipedia At: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color (Accessed 22.07.2021)
In other words, color or reflected light inseparable from matter. In classical physics and general chemistry, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume.
(Wikipedia At: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter (Accessed 22.07.2021) It is something physical and tangible.
Matter (from Lat. Māteria "substance") is one of the basic concepts of physics, a general term that is determined by the multitude of all contents of space-time and affects its properties.
(Wikipedia At: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Материя_(физика) (Accessed 22.07.2021)
Thus, colour is inseparable from matter, can take any form and is subject to the laws of space and time. But the questions arise with the perception of colour.
For me with synaesthesia, sometimes there is no matter or object which would physically reflect the light. The colour sensations can be caused by events, feelings, person or even music. Therefore is it possible that intangible entities can also have colour? And if they have a colour, then there is a matter?! Is it possible through this train of thought to prove the materiality of thoughts?
Another question, what is this colour sensation? It turns out this is my body that becomes a perceived colour or some part of it, for example, the head. How do I determine the shape of this colour and matter? It can't be my body, can it?!
Considering all the interconnections of colour, light, matter, it all comes down to human perception. And here it is interesting to mention the actual existence of the matter.
George Berkeley denied the existence of matter. According to Berkeley, everything that exists is existing only insofar as it is either perceived by the subjective spirit as an idea in sensations or it perceives ideas. Matter, by definition, is an insensible, non-thinking substance that affects the spirit from the outside and generates ideas in it. Thus, the matter is neither an idea perceived by the spirit in sensations, nor a substance perceiving ideas, and therefore does not exist.
(Wikipedia At: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Материя_(философия) (Accessed 22.07.2021)
And here I can agree that if I am not, then there is no world for me, and, accordingly, there is no matter. But the fact is that I am not here alone. And there is a kind of collective memory until the last person on earth exists. Here I mean that if I disappear, then the matter will still be perceived by other people, which means that matter, together with colour, will still exist in their consciousness.
And if a person returns from space travel, and there are no people left on the earth, he will still be able to perceive the matter of the people left behind. And it, in turn, will be able to convey information or emotional content.
This part was devoted to a rhetorical discussion of the essence of colour and matter. I feel here that light/colour as a beginning of physical entities can bring me to the materiality of thoughts.
As a result, the final physical work was "Black", as well as the concept of large works "Materiality". From a technical point of view, working on "Black" was a kind of a small experiment with changing the shape of the paper. Such changes do not interfere with the perception of colour and allow the eye to study texture. The colour black turned out to be so exciting and addictive that, ideally, the work would be about four meters long and about three meters high. In this case, a person should stand relatively close to the surface of the work, so that peripheral vision captured only the surface of the painting.
Thus, the viewer will have the opportunity to focus only on himself, to perceive all the associations and sensations from the resulting colour.
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