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This is a platform for sharing the art work, ideas and information about artists we at ART YARD admire.  This may include teaching artists, board members, participating artists and students, friends, and artists whose work has inspired ART YARD lessons. 

 

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Meridith McNeal
May 12, 2020
Edited: May 12, 2020

CREATE: Mon., May 11, 2020: Inspiration for this week is COLOR

I have been thinking about color, the power of a vibrant hue, the subtle nuance of an opposite shade, the visceral reaction to a saturated tone.


I have been thinking about, painting, reading and painting and thinking some more about Beauford Delaney and the color YELLOW.


This is my painting in progress. I should be done soon:


Meridith McNeal, "Magical Things from Quarantine Through The Unusual Door". IN PROGRESS, almost done.

"His paintings became freer, looser, more expressive of joy, and more colorfully complex. Yet he continued to faithfully make extensive use of yellow, a color that he associated with inner universal spirituality.  The best example of this, and one of the best paintings in the show, makes central use of white and yellow as a symbol for intellect, creativity, happiness, and the power of persuasion." Joseph Nechvatal, BEAUFORD DELANEY: Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color, The Brooklyn Rail


Please share your thoughts, artwork, photographs, inspirations, esoteric musings about COLOR!

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Meridith McNeal
May 12, 2020Edited: May 12, 2020