Cheyney Thompson, Chromachrome 19 (5BG/5R) macaire, 2009
Oil on Canvas, 88 X 111 in.

From the press release:

The scanned fabric sample is divided into three equal sets of numeric data which correspond to the value axis of the digital image, resulting in a template which consolidates the value information into zones of highlight, mid-tone, and dark. The lights and darks of the image provide the coordinates for the distribution of complementary colour pairs based on Albert Munsell’s colour model. These complementary colour pairs are arbitrarily assigned to the individual paintings as a means of providing a minimum of identity within the ensemble. Each painting in the sequence has a unique format which functions as a recitation of the variety of the types of painting supports which have constituted the grounds for the formation of the many genres and attendant subjects of painting. Their designation as chromachromes is intended to signal their filiation with that special class of painting, the monochrome. In response to the monochrome’s claim to universality, chromachromes will always find themselves to be subsumed in the rationalized framework of a complete color system.

I was trying to find out whats bigger the Flatiron Building or the Sphinx (the Egyptian one) and I came across this awesome photo of the Flatiron Building by Edward Steichen, but it was small, so I went to Google Image Search to find a bigger one. Internet, lets try to figure this color shit out next, ok? (Still not sure about the original question.)

Hildur Guðnadóttir’s score for Nacre, a 2009 piece for church organ and light organ.

Nacre’s score is in the shape of a 360 degree helix of a double strand DNA. This form was chosen as a connection to Margrét’s passionate work as a virologist. DNA forms the basis of inheritance in all organisms, except viruses, although DNA can be found in a few viruses such as herpes. DNA also connects grandmother and granddaughter, whereas it holds genetic information to be passed on from one generation to the next.

It uses Newton’s color circle to translate sounds to visuals.

The basis of the light organ is Newton’s color circle. He was the first person to connect colour to wavelengths of light and made the colour circle based on that theory. His circle consists of 7 colours and he assigned musical notes to each colour. Newton’s scale starts with red, to which he assigned the note D. The scale continues as a diatonic scale from D (also known as the Dorian mode); E=orange, F=yellow etc.

A light system was made specially for Nacre, which reads the frequencies being played on the church organ and triggers coloured lights for each note in Newton’s color circle. When the note D is played on the organ, for example, a red light shines in the light organ.

The light organ hangs above the audience. 70 LED lights are arranged in mirror modules that are held up by giant balloons. The floating lights are therefore multiplied and create a slight spatial distortion.

You can listen to the premier here.

17th Stage, 1964.

Epigram, 1961.

RIP Kenneth Noland.

Oil painting of Penrose Tiling by Urs Schmid. No other information given.

Xylor Jane, Bombinating (2009).
Oil on panel 44”x41”.

Best Made Co.’s has a poster available of their axe swatches. Nice consolation, if you can’t afford one of their striking axes this season.

BMC folks, feel free to send a poster and axe to Modcult for review.

5th Annviersary, Kennedy Center by Gene Davis, 1976.

View more of his prints at Flickr Commons courtesy of the Smithsonian Art Museum.

More lovely color explorations from Andy Gilmore.

From The Natural System of Colour by Moses Harris, 1766.

The curious should check out Sarah Lowengard’s The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe.