The 256 most used colors organized by value of the old masters. Look at all of them together and compare. Who had more access to cobalt? The italians had more extensive collections of siennas and umbers, and so on. It's also about information and digitization, and how our perception changes according to the technology we use. The paintings of the old masters were so rich using minerals and gums, but these paintings will never have that same depth of color because computer processing has finite capability for color values; 256 units per channel. It's also a visualization of how we break up and store information digitally, how we boil it down to raw essentials, how we can boil down something as complex as into color swatches, to go with the couch.
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The 256 most used colors organized by value of the old masters. Look at all of them together and compare. Who had more access to cobalt? The italians had more extensive collections of siennas and umbers, and so on. It's also about information and digitization, and how our perception changes according to the technology we use. The paintings of the old masters were so rich using minerals and gums, but these paintings will never have that same depth of color because computer processing has finite capability for color values; 256 units per channel. It's also a visualization of how we break up and store information digitally, how we boil it down to raw essentials, how we can boil down something as complex as into color swatches, to go with the couch.
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- Year Created: 2008
- Submitted to ArtBase: Saturday Nov 29th, 2008
- Original Url: http://www.sofyyuditskaya.com/yuditskaya/0000SofySite/masterLibraries.html
- Permalink: http://www.sofyyuditskaya.com/yuditskaya/0000SofySite/masterLibraries.html
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Work Credits:
- Sofy Yuditskaya, creator
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