Exhibition

ARNULF RAINER Painter's Colours

Arnulf Rainer Museum
Apr 28 2017
Josefsplatz 5,
Vienna 2500 Baden
Phone: +43 2252 209196
19:00
free
Friday, April 28, 2017
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Opening of the Exhibition Die Farben der Malers (Painter's Clours)

Starting out from Leonardo da Vinci’s Treatise on Painting Helmut Friedel, the curator of the exhibition, is presenting works from Arnulf Rainer’s oeuvre that demonstrate how colours can evoke very special emotional qualities. A nuanced graduation of the expressive characteristics of white, yellow, green, blue, red and black are elicited from the juxtaposition of pictures – created in different years – and the differing ways in which colours are worked.

Video Portrait of Arnulf Rainer in German

‘There are (six) simple colours. The first of these is white although some philosophers count neither black nor white among the colours and assert that one is the origin of colours and the other their lack. But we include them because painters cannot get along without them and, having named white the first of the simple colours, call yellow the second, green the third, blue the fourth, red the fifth and black the sixth. And white stands for light without which one can see no colour, yellow for the earth, green for water, blue for the air, red for fire and black for darkness that stands above fire because there is no material there, nothing solid on which the rays of the sun might fall and, as a consequence, illuminate.’

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