The 71st A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect, Part 2: Jacob Lawrence?s Viridian

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The Bauhaus artist and theorist Josef Albers declared that a color?s quintessence ?is of less concern than what it does.? Richard J. Powell?s talk revisits this idea through the cool and relatively modern color viridian. A dark green-blue hue, viridian and its professed theatricality were not only commented upon by Albers, but also ?cast? in countless paintings by artist Jacob Lawrence, a looming 20th-century figure of narrative art and visual modernism. 

This is the second talk of the six-part series??Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect,??presented by Richard J. Powell of Duke University for the 71st A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts.