tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post8048759314350418113..comments2024-03-18T07:23:32.809-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: Mucha and Emotional ColorJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-71035023832221655052008-06-16T15:53:00.000-04:002008-06-16T15:53:00.000-04:00This is great to know! I admire artists like Much...This is great to know! I admire artists like Mucha who comprehend this and execute it in a work that is really from pure imagination... they know what they want to achieve and they achieve it<BR/><BR/>Thank you for posting this!Anthony VanArsdalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04239147412646328392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-72230906659932797632008-06-15T14:41:00.000-04:002008-06-15T14:41:00.000-04:00This is the kind of blogg entry that does make me ...This is the kind of blogg entry that does make me happy. =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-76580057108097878312008-06-15T12:28:00.000-04:002008-06-15T12:28:00.000-04:00Awesome post. Thanks!Awesome post. Thanks!Michael Damboldthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13141514622593774503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-87483921388226612362008-06-15T10:37:00.000-04:002008-06-15T10:37:00.000-04:00You know when i think emotional, non literal color...You know when i think emotional, non literal color I think of Basil Gogos and those CRAZY monster paintings. Drawing so you can recognize it and color so you can feel it.JRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00873988005666319257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-42392618250122960392008-06-15T07:50:00.000-04:002008-06-15T07:50:00.000-04:00What a fascinating post! Thanks for posting this. ...What a fascinating post! Thanks for posting this. I've always felt very close to artists whose colouring was used for expressive means.The awareness of emotional properties of colour probably exists to some degree in all painters. I love the quality here of restraint in order to push one colour forward. This seems really Victorian to me. Rackham, Dulac etc.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375615378259386972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-2057425663334452672008-06-15T05:48:00.000-04:002008-06-15T05:48:00.000-04:00Ah Mucha...! A couple of years ago there was a Muc...Ah Mucha...! A couple of years ago there was a Mucha exhibition in my country which covered just about everything the man made (including jewelry, sketches etc) and of I course we, my friends and I, went.<BR/>The famous posters were fun but slightly disappointing. Not that the art wasn't marvellous - it was. Not because the posters were excellent examples of perfunctionary art (if that's the right word to use; they are advertisements, art to sell you something), because I actually enjoy that sort of thing (I once aspired to be an illustrator myself and can really enjoy a good ad for that reason)<BR/>No, the posters were pretty, but their images had been.. overused. They are just too iconic, like Rembrand's Nightwatch or the Mona Lisa. <BR/>I very much enjoyed the sketches, though. That effortless that comes from great skill, and they have a beauty all of their own.<BR/>But the oils! My god! The oils just *blew me away*! They had the sense of 19th century opera, all that drama and emotion and they were so *beautiful*. <BR/>Yes, the pretty poster ladies are pretty (and very skillfully done and beautiful in their own right) but they were Mucha's bread and butter. The oils were his soul, and it shows!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com