Color Transforms

David Choe, muralist and graphic artist. In my mind, he defies color with his beautiful murals. Being an artist that has his artwork seen from the United States to Vietnam, he shows vulgarity by giving his art an aesthetic spin. Like many of this murals and artworks, Choe uses color to bring his pictures to life and give them bigger meaning. In the picture to the left, there is a woman that is surrounded by black, white and grey while her face gives off different color vibes, drawing the audience into her face. Referring to Josef Albers' book "Interaction of Color", there is a play of brightness in Choe's artwork. Color intensity is something that every human eye craves and looks out for in artwork and Choe does deliver with this piece. The color intensity is not really found in the black, white and grey until the colors are mixed but the real intensity is shown in the woman's face. Colors defy this woman, bringing more brightness to her lips, looking luscious and plump and her eyes have a distinct brightness. As Albers points out, there are different tastes in color when it comes to different color. For me, the lips and the eyes are the main parts of the painting that attract me to the painting altogether. I see colors differently from someone else because I can see a reder red than someone else that is seeing the same picture as me. Knowing that there are different view of color in this painting, society can see this design to be universal, one that communicates to different human eyes. This can be considered to be universal because of the many people that this painting can appeal and the different brightness or intensities that they might experience. I thank David Choe for his painting and I encourage him to continue with his work to make more paintings that can connect with society and have more communication through them such as color, pointed out by Josef Albers.

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