Bachelor, David, "Chromophobia", Reaktion Books 2000: Chapter 4: Hanunoo
In the reading of Chromophobia David bachelor jumps through how artist view color, like le courbusier believes color should be explosive and in your face. He alos goes on to say that as we grow older we loose the concept of how we view color. As we grow older we put color into boxes and catagorize them to understand them. One problem with that, is that once we arrange color we cannot change the written word of a color to the actual color. and later we makeup more words to explain the other colors. In Color Codes , by Charles A Riley he states that color refuses to conform to a schematic and verbal system. As languages differ from words, the name of a color may be diferent that the color that is percieved by a different culture.
This reading is very interesting to be because I have a hard time aranging an actual color and the name of a color. What intrigued me was how David talked about how different cultures may have a more than one name for a color depending on its shade. Cultural norms in color differ from culture to culture. I liked how the author tied many aspects of color and how diferent artists with many diferent mediums interact with color in their own way. For example Painters ineract with color in a way that differs from Ceramicists because of the proces from a pigment to a final product.
Rafael
It is interesting to think about how influential the names and words we use to describe color are. It makes sense to call different shades of color different names, the shade changes the emotive quality directly. I liked the point you made about our tendency to box things in order to understand them too. Sometimes generalizations or attached connotations or similar things can really hinder our process and decision making, and or freedom in all of that, but it also challenges us in a way they can really keep us focused.
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