The 71st A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect, Part 4: Red Combustion, Blue Alchemy

Description

Works by the renowned painters
Raymond Saunders and Sam Gilliam employ an array of colors, but their art
featuring red and blue communicates something not only axiomatic, but also
synthetic, volatile, and aspiring to what the literary critic Marina Warner described
as a quest for a universal message, or a panacea. Some of Saunders?s and
Gilliam?s hued statements are ocular and seemingly derive from scientific color
analyses, while others are improvisational or symbolic, evoking combustive and
alchemical effects.

This is the
fourth 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.