In Tiffany Singh’s works, she uses the colours that are found in the rainbow, which are ROYGBIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet). Personally, I think the colours Tiffany uses, not so much make up the work, but essentially ARE the work. From the images Singh showed us, in every or most of her works, the same colour pattern is repeated, but in a different way. From a linear arrangement to the circular arrangement she’s doing at the moment, Singh has recycled and reuse the same colours. I liked Singh’s use of the rainbow colours because it allows any audience- young or old, to engage with her work.
I also liked the idea of using the 7 colours of the rainbow because it can take many different meanings.
Take the rainbow for starters.
When I was young, every time I would see a rainbow, it would remind me of the Great Flood in the Bible and how the rainbow appeared at the end, almost like a sign that everything bad was now over.
I guess everyone has their own interpretations of the rainbow and how it makes them feel.
Similar to Tiffany Singh, Dan Kennedy uses a rainbow-ish colour palette in his paintings. This piece, Darwin’s Ghosts (older than dirt), 2008 gives me a sense of childlike, Willy Wonka kind of feeling, where everything is “tasty.” I really like this piece because although it looks friendly and fun, there seems to be a dark side to it with all of the images compiled together, because it makes me wonder as to why you would go to so much trouble putting all those images together, unless there was something behind it you were trying to hide.
When I was 7, my favourite colour was blue. At 9 years old, it was red, 10 years, brown. I found it really hard to choose one specific colour as my favourite. Maybe the reason why I don’t seem to have a favourite colour so much is because of the rainbow. I always seemed to change my answer whenever someone would ask me about my favourite colour. Thinking back to it, I sort of wish I said rainbow, because deep down, my favourite colours are all those 7 colours.
Thanks Tee,
ReplyDeleteI love your answer about your favourite colour! I think I might steal your idea! But yes, it's very hard to make a choice and kind of silly too, because the best thing about colours is how they work together, not separately.
I like the Dan Kennedy painting you chose and I think one of the interesting aspects to it is the use of text, which makes it even more densely packed and multi-layered, not to mention more strange and obscure. I like the way you compared it to Willy Wonka, that makes total sense to me!
TX