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Jenepher Duncan - REMIX
2011 REMIX
The Evolution of Colour Words
Detail: RAINBOW 1
RAINBOWS
2011
3 units each 100 x 100 cm
oil and enamel on canvas
State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
The colours of the rainbow are determined by the size of the raindrops. Rainbow 1 has big drops making a predominately red rainbow with bright violet and green lines but faint blue; the smaller drops of Rainbow 2 produce a bow with less red, brighter blue, less and fainter green, and a central white stripe; Rainbow 3, with still smaller drops, is a mist or fogbow, which retains only the faintest orange and bluish edges.
RAINBOW 1
RAINBOW 2
RAINBOW 3
VENETIAN BLACK
2009
55 cm x 77 cm
oil on canvas
VENETIAN BLACK reproduces Titian's method of achieving black in 1522 through a complex layer structure of colour. Broadly speaking, Titian moved from warm mixtures including vermilion and ochre, in the underlayers to cooler ones, including azurite and violet lake, in the final layers. Five of the layers contain some lead white, a very dense pigment which tips the mixture towards opacity, and in turn makes it cooler. By overlaying cool over warm, Titian induced a dusky silver to hover over ebonies and sables.
EVOLUTION ORCHARD
2009
150 x 125 cm
oil on canvas
The seven stages of the order of emergence of colour words in developing languages are:
I -white and black,II -red,III -green or yellow,IV - green and yellow,V -blue,VI -brown,VII -purple, pink, orange, and grey
"the increase in the number of basic colour terms may be seen as part of a general increase in vocabulary - a response to an informationally richer cultural environment about which speakers must communicate effectively." Basic Colour Terms, Berlin, B. & Kay, P., 1969
The theory of the evolution of colour words has been applied to an image based on a William Morris wallpaper design (pomegranate).
ANOTHER APRON DIPTYCH and BOX
1998
3 units 105.5 x 76 cm(x 2) 26 x 30 x 5 cm
oil on linen, wooden box, folded painting apron, glass
State Art Gallery Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
The painting on the left is a painting of the artist’s painting apron. The painting on the right was the palette for the painting on the left. The box contains the folded painting apron.
Jenepher Duncan - REMIX
2011 REMIX
The Evolution of Colour Words
COLOUR THEORIES
Detail: RAINBOW 1
RAINBOWS
2011
3 units each 100 x 100 cm
oil and enamel on canvas
State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
The colours of the rainbow are determined by the size of the raindrops. Rainbow 1 has big drops making a predominately red rainbow with bright violet and green lines but faint blue; the smaller drops of Rainbow 2 produce a bow with less red, brighter blue, less and fainter green, and a central white stripe; Rainbow 3, with still smaller drops, is a mist or fogbow, which retains only the faintest orange and bluish edges.
RAINBOW 1
RAINBOW 2
RAINBOW 3
VENETIAN BLACK
2009
55 cm x 77 cm
oil on canvas
VENETIAN BLACK reproduces Titian's method of achieving black in 1522 through a complex layer structure of colour. Broadly speaking, Titian moved from warm mixtures including vermilion and ochre, in the underlayers to cooler ones, including azurite and violet lake, in the final layers. Five of the layers contain some lead white, a very dense pigment which tips the mixture towards opacity, and in turn makes it cooler. By overlaying cool over warm, Titian induced a dusky silver to hover over ebonies and sables.
EVOLUTION ORCHARD
2009
150 x 125 cm
oil on canvas
The seven stages of the order of emergence of colour words in developing languages are:
I -white and black,II -red,III -green or yellow,IV - green and yellow,V -blue,VI -brown,VII -purple, pink, orange, and grey
"the increase in the number of basic colour terms may be seen as part of a general increase in vocabulary - a response to an informationally richer cultural environment about which speakers must communicate effectively." Basic Colour Terms, Berlin, B. & Kay, P., 1969
The theory of the evolution of colour words has been applied to an image based on a William Morris wallpaper design (pomegranate).
ANOTHER APRON DIPTYCH and BOX
1998
3 units 105.5 x 76 cm(x 2) 26 x 30 x 5 cm
oil on linen, wooden box, folded painting apron, glass
State Art Gallery Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
The painting on the left is a painting of the artist’s painting apron. The painting on the right was the palette for the painting on the left. The box contains the folded painting apron.