Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. – Claude Monet
Since the earliest cave paintings, colour has been a source of fascination throughout history. As such, its enduring allure inspired the theme for Saatchi Online’s next Showdown competition, “In Living Color.”
The story of colour is a global one: the Aztecs discovered Carmine red by crushing cochineal insects; the Phoenicians produced Tyrian purple; India brought us Indian yellow, made out of the urine of cows whose diet was restricted to mango leaves; Prussian blue was created in Germany in the early 18th century. Until then, blue pigment had been so expensive – it was made out of lapis lazuli – that in the 16th century only the wealthiest patrons could afford to commission paintings featuring blue.
Much later, in the mid-19th century, the world turned techni-colour for photographers, and a century later, in 1962, colour photography was finally admitted into the art world with the first museum exhibition of colour photography at MoMA in New York.
Given the powerful role of colour throughout the history of art, we’d like to see how colour informs your work. You can submit work of any medium (painting, photography, sculpture, etc.).
Stay tuned for details on judges, dates, submission tips, and more. We hope you’ll take part in the “In Living Colour” Showdown and look forward to your submissions.
Photo credits: Shisha-Tom; Stephhzz; Palladian
I am all about color when it comes to my latest work “Dollpera”.
http://www.richardmonge.com/PortfolioPage-Dollpera2012-ColorBlocking.htm
I look forward to your details regarding “In Living Colour”.
I also uploaded one piece to my Saatchi Online portfolio today.
More to come!
Thank you
Ricardo
This really sounds great! Especially because I have a series of abstract paintings that is caleld “In the Ryhthmn of colour” – so I would love to participate.
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Monika
Waiting for it as my work is based on color rhythm and music, …as well called abstract expressionism and inspiration from nature….
Have a look at my work and tell me what you think about it…
Artistically yours
Dominique
Without Cadmium colors paintings would be life less. Wars and deaths have occured throught history to save the secret receipes for some of the oil color paints. So yes, color is important. History and art tells us this.
i just love bright cerulean, fire engine red, British racing green, shocking pink, powder blue, viridian hues, golds and shades of gray, fuchsia, vermillion and…
Looking forward!
The color I have. I do not need groped to grab it. I have forever, I feel it. This is the way to happy hour: color and I are one. I am a painter.
(manica vitti attrice italiana)
I was just advised last week by a well meaning ‘art dealer’ that I used colour like I was using up paint because I hadn’t used that colour for a while, among other evil art words ‘ picturing’ and the worst ‘ornamental’ ! He maybe worried more about the fact I sell and am ‘collected’ without an art dealer making his job almost obsolete, saatchi on line also let’s real artists rip it up it is fantastic!! Can’t wait for the colour show down, power to the artist!, yeeha!
P.s Merry Xmas and a colorful and fantastic new year 2013, love everyones paintings, international inspiration.
I love to join this competition
Just let me know…
Thx
Keep us posted
In between, I wish you all a Happy New Year 2013 full of Magic !
waintig for details
I am so excited to enter this…
wow
There are two palettes of colour. One is natural and one is synthetic. This is not common knowledge in the greater art community. Lapis lazuli belongs to the natural palette of the Renaissance. The natural ultramarine from lapis lazuli bears no comparison to its modern “equivalent” French ultramarine invented in 1827/28. Ninety-nine percent of contemporary artists work with modern synthetic pigments and do not know about the superior luminosity and completely different chromatic values of the natural mineral pigments. I hope someone at Saatchi knows something about the fundamentals of colour.
Great information!
A color can be absolutely beautiful on its own, but it loses its ” voice” if it is surrounded by wrong shades of colours, no matter how gorgeos each of the shades might be.
Mattice knew that better than anybody else, or perhaps, he had a better luck with colours.
I love competitions.I love colors-red and white is my favourite,like a Polish flag.
Best wishes and a joyous new year 2013.
Please let me know more about this showdown. I have a sculpture (not yet on my website) that fits the description of “In Living Colour”.
Malena Gainza
color is so strong of an element that sometimes I find it over communicates, especially when one is not conscious of its’ use. I prefer human figures to be nude, because clothes communicate, they have a story of their own. color as well (I am starting to feel) has to be taken cautiously, unless one really really knows what one is doing.
Olá.
Gostaria de obter informações sobre o Showdown: “In Living Colour”
I have a little brochure with these words as my main focus in my abstract paintings is on colors so it says “colors are like sounds, I have got to find the right ones so that you can hear the music”.
Awesome!!**, I’m on the same page with that statement, **
I have a little brochure with those words as my main focus in my abstract paintings is on colors so it says “colors are like sounds, I have got to find the right ones so that you can hear the music”. Meanwhile I wish everybody a Happy New Year 2013 from Paris, France.
I strongly believe that one can learn different techniques, but to master the colour requires something more than knowledge of colour wheel. It requires passion and feeling. It is on the border between knowledge and mystery.
Yes, beautifully said,
I love colours!
I am looking forward to know more about the showdown “In Living Colours”!!!
I am always inspired by the colours of life and like to add my own twist to it. Please keep me posted. Looking forward to enter this Colour Competition.
The Resonance gouache paint of Lascaux did change my colors dramatically, six years ago. I will send in fr this Showdown. Thanks for the possibility!
That s great!!! Looking forward…
Color as tone, on a gray scale between white and black, it can be as subtle and soft as shadows and on the other end of the pendulum, it is the focal point, where it creates edges creating the definition of form. Color is emotion, thought and feeling and I am so grateful for vision and for the five senses that are intrinsic in being an artist.
“merrrryykchristmaseveryone”
‘getcolorful’nhavacolorfulllnewyear’
El color es vida, y el vivir nos hace más fuertes para gozar la expresión artística y creativa en libertad. Los sentidos se abren y la mente fluye a lo más alto.
I can’t wait to enter one of my experimental light photographic works…
Could your software technicians please allocate a unique number to each entry so that as we vote we know that the work is identifiable. I have made collections from previous Showdowns only to find that in the last one there were several works completely unrecognizable as being chronologically in the process. Of course with thousands of works it is difficult to recognize and remember them all, but I think there still could be more transparency and accountability. And at last a theme that invites a celebration of colour.
A very good idea. I think I’ll add your work to this project…!
A very good idea. I think I’ll add your work to this project…!
Color is my obsession, my joy. Looking forward to this showdown!
Bonne année ~
An interesting initiative.
I would like to take part in similar projects ..
In my work color plays a crucial issue.
Poland has a long history of color in painting.
Polish colourists were at the forefront of J.Cybisem.
Look forward to it!
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i know this sites fantastic
getting stuff out there
and that
but that showdown thing
dont you think its a bit naff
a bit pop idol
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It is what it is! Blue
I cannot see any specifique meaning of “in living colour” – ? All colours are “living”, even the historical ones!
I think this is a fantastic idea. As everyone knows, colour is a very important element in almost every work of art: it is especially important for me in my abstract painting. I look forward to submitting some of my paintings.
Since my nickname is “Chromosoph” (means color-lover) I can’t wait to submit some of my “Blooming Colors”
my work is based on catchy colors, http://www.flickr.com/photos/francisco-pez/ am i able to show my work on this showdown?
I do not know what most of the people above me are talking about and I am glad.
in living color sound very inoperative and alive, all around us and inside our minds and feelings, but in art it doesn’t have borders now and I am happy because of that. we have chance to mean on colors on different ways. starting the meanings and visions which color we prefer and why or what strangeness and symbols and energy this color have
Color is the most interesting for me. I look forward to January. Happy New Year!
Colors have their own voice and they will choose the artists they feel a connection with.I know this as I never picked the colors but the colors picked me.And as a gratitude I have always celebrate their stories in Nature.
Tower of Color! I am ready! http://www.saatchionline.com/profiles/portfolio/id/259197
I see only one color. New color.
http://www.saatchionline.com/EduardZentshik
Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year & God bless everyone especially Tiny Tim!
Neon colors fascinate me and provide inspiration for some of my photos. I love neon signs as an art form.
I could not wait to participate in another showdovn
I am waiting for the rules of the compettition¡¡¡¡¡ as an abstract artist I’m working with colours that have a phsicological effect on spirit and mind, in our sittuation of country ( Venezuela with the dictator Chavez) we need colours that make us happy an harmonic, that is what I’m looking for. Happy new year to all the artist in this mad world¡¡¡¡ Ana María
Happy New Yearto everybody. Color is my obsession.
Waiting for details. At what date this submission will start?
for your references http://wordpress.com/#!/read/likes/
Waiting for competition…Color is an important part of my work
Colour of my childhood..
colour is the essential matter in my photography! thanks for creating this theme. i’ll be there!
best regards
Good, color is my love, I did a painting titled De Colores from a Mexican song, good fun, Angeline Kyba
Are gold and silver included ‘in living colour(s)’? Looking forward to learning more about this competition.
I don’t like to talk about technique because I like to keep my working ways to myself. Whatever one can get out of it by looking they are free to do so.
Talking about color in a meaningful way would reveal technique.
So I’ll leave it at that, simplicity is key.
Whether or not I am entered into a contest is neither gain nor loss for me.
I’ll start discussing technique once some coin comes rolling my way.
VERY WELL : all people have the coulours in the brain , fews look for its and even less found its
Great idea! Because in most works of art, colors are essential for expression in the art works ifself and for the feelings, understanding and technique by the artist. In my own life of art I always use the colors as important ingredience for my art work. I’ m sure that in all works of art in black/white and in drawings and photo-art, the artist in his mind feels the color, too.
Opposite most other animals, we are priviledged to see, feel and enjoy the magic of colors. But the most fantastic colors we can find, are in animals and nature.
I would like if Saatchi could permit submission of 3 art works for Showdown. It could give a more fair view and understanding for the artist and style.
Good luck for all the artists in Showdown
My newest series of digital imagery is Kauluwela Moku. The name is derived from two Hawaiian words. Kauluwela means glowing, colorful. Moku is an island. I am in the process of loading the imagery onto my Saatchi Online profile. There are currently 90 images in the series with more in the works. I’m looking forward to entering one in the Showdown.
Please let me know how I am able to enter an artwork for this showdown. Thank you in advance.
Hello Eefje.
You have a great website with one of the best, expressive technic in painting faces. I enjoy very much to visit your site, and I wish you the best in future.
Greetings from Dan Civa
Hello Dan,
Thank you very much for your wonderful comment, it makes me want to pait even more and more
Have a nice day!
All the best,
Eefje
I’m ready and excited to participate to the Next Saatchi Online Showdown Competition: “In Living Color”
Best wishes, Chris
Ready !
Colors are definitely an expression of joy and love for life!
My work lives thanks to colors. I you want to see it please visit http://www.khelmlinger.cl
Congratulations to Saatchionline.
Karin Helmlinger
Anxious to hear of the Color competition event! Color is excitement!
In addition to being an Artist
I am a Color and Design Consultant. I have given presentations on Color,
a MOST fascinating subject in art and in life.
Shouldn’t some of the “inappropriate” comments above be edited out? Are we talking about art? If they want to insult each other there is always Twitter and Facebook. Please!
I look forward art my passion colours is my life
Susan why’s so stiff we’s artists yes
When does the showdown end?
Everything is full of colour. How to select one?
http://www.saatchionline.com/profiles/portfolio/id/395292
how much work you can imagine? one? or more?
Colour ! Color, Cular culer .