Yes, Wonderful Things

A ramshackle place for mini-obsessions, fleeting interests and grand plans. Collected by a female Antipodean living in London and dabbling in the dark arts of book design while wedged somewhere between a small shelf in Tesco and a virtual shopping cart.
Paul Gauguin, The Loss of Virginity, 1890-1 I just made it to the great Gauguin exhibition at the Tate Modern a couple of weeks ago. I realised quickly that I had always been completely ignorant of the brilliant colours he used in many of his pantings that are just impossible to reproduce via CMYK. For some reason in my head his paintings were muddy browns and greens but that couldn’t have been further from the truth. Growing up in Oz, a lot of art was experienced via the medium of the printed page. These days maybe it’s the screen; not sure if it’s better or worse. Maybe it means less ability to see overall detail possibly but the also the chance to ‘zoom in’ on detail and have a larger colour gamut. Regardless, this painting really stood out for me in the show-apart from anything else-the cliffs in the background were an incredible acid magenta … which you can’t really see the depth of colour of here in RGB …and so the cycle begins again.

Paul Gauguin, The Loss of Virginity, 1890-1

I just made it to the great Gauguin exhibition at the Tate Modern a couple of weeks ago. I realised quickly that I had always been completely ignorant of the brilliant colours he used in many of his pantings that are just impossible to reproduce via CMYK. For some reason in my head his paintings were muddy browns and greens but that couldn’t have been further from the truth.

Growing up in Oz, a lot of art was experienced via the medium of the printed page. These days maybe it’s the screen; not sure if it’s better or worse. Maybe it means less ability to see overall detail possibly but the also the chance to ‘zoom in’ on detail and have a larger colour gamut. Regardless, this painting really stood out for me in the show-apart from anything else-the cliffs in the background were an incredible acid magenta … which you can’t really see the depth of colour of here in RGB …and so the cycle begins again.