Thursday 2 August 2012

Blue is the veil to Heaven

Lapis lazuli from the Arab states arrived in Venice.
Giotto painted Heaven as blue



Titian though was obsesed with blue apparently and he was involved in the liberation of blue that had been controlled by the Church.
Bacchus and Ariadne was restored and it was discovered that it was a painting full of brilliant colours especially blue

Apparently Titian is using blue for fun and liberating it from the shckles of religion. It was only to be used for very religious matters.

18th Century Germany and blue was turned into emotions ...
The romantic age. Delicate sensibilities, wild imaginings, wonderful heroes. Novanis worked on his epic novel. Lucid visions keep the protagonist from sleep. Fantasies led him on a journey across his imagination. He was searching for a small blue flower.
Blue became the colour of the deepest feelings at this time.
Gaugin's sun
Van Gogh Starry Night
Munch Lovers

Picasso - Blue period works
Stories of suicide, despair and the search for redemption.
Oct 1900 at 19 years ols. He decided to leave Spain with his best friend Carlos Casagemos.
They planned to make their name. They went to Paris. They stepped of the train and into the centre of the world - converging artists were there.

Casagemas pulled a gun on his lover. She escaped unscathed but he thought she was dead and he shot himself dead.

Picasso was horrified and struggled to come to terms with the death. he was so bereft he behaved rather strangely. He started taking over his best friends identity. Moving into Casagemas' apartment, sleeping with his girlfiend. He repeatedly painted Casagemas in his coffin.
Scenes of the funeral painted in a blue haze.
A host of blue period paintings which seem to lnk closely with woeing through his grief

In Egyptian history blue represented hell

Yves Klein a Frech painter who never gave up on blue
Not only in blue but about blue - he even invented his own blue
Born in 1928 the son of two bohemian artists.
He became a jickey and danced and studied to be a judo master.
He decided to become an artist.
Single blocks of colour.
Captivated by the colour of the sky.
In Paris he sought the legendary colour make that countless artists had entrusted to prepare their paints.
Eduard Adam - emporium

Falling asleep - off to beddy byes
Bliss
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