Barragan and Leggoreta
Funny you should mention Barragan, Arthur SP. Both he and his protege Leggoreta have been big influences on the 'modernization' of the Santa Fe style. My new home is actually quite influenced by both of them. My architect/builder is also a big fan of John Pawson and David Adjaye, so I have lots of clean lines, blocks of color and interesting window placement. With all the light out here those features are gorgeously seen.
Gustavo, I promise not to tell about your love for pink! I think my issue with it is the 'childishness' with which it is so often used. It's a color that can very easily tire and insult the eye if it's too candy-like. I do like soft greyed pinks and lavenders. Here, in Santa Fe, these colors are mixed into the tones of the sunsets along with rich red, oranges, purples and a lovely shade of steel blue that you can often see in the clouds.
Thank you for the compliments, I guess you are right, I am very affected by color. I do seem to have the knack of seeing it exactly. I often surprise people when I will remember the precise shade and tone of something when I buy clothing or home accessories. It's pretty common for me to match things perfectly just from memory. My sister can do the same thing so it must be something about our brains that is genetically sensitive to color.
The light here in New Mexico is famous for it's clarity. People have been coming here to paint for a long time, most famously, Georgia O'Keefe. She was just a genius in her use of color and she spoke of the light out here as a big reason why. It's been really interesting to see my things in this new light and realize that what I loved in my soft New England blue-grey light is NOT the same in the clear, hard crystal light of New Mexico. I have always loved oranges and reds, but felt they were too harsh back east so I used them sparingly, out here I use them in abundance and they look wonderful!
My Favorite
I LOOOOOVE Pawson, there is just no way I could live in such a minimalist world even though I would like to. Here's my favorite of his works, The Monastery at Novy Dvur. I'm not the least bit religious but even I can see the hand of the divine in this space.
There's a link to more pix hiding at the bottom of this post.
http://www.aestheteblog.com/2010/04/01/traditional-minimalism-the-sparta...
A little something for our...
A little something for our Argentine friend Gustavo, here's a piece from the Smithsonian you might find interesting. From the "Southern Idenity" exhibit.
http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/smithsonian-latino-center-opens-southern...
Not a fan of the Pantone hone...
Not a fan of the Pantone honeybismol color of the year. I was going to say, maybe it's partly a gender issue, but that's a pretty large generality, so nix that.
Enjoyed reading about color with respect to geography, which makes sense. One could probably make some geographical distinctions in the US with regard to that, or ask some interesting questions. Midwest: primary or pastel? That kind of thing, you know. Or southwest architecture, for example, I think, certainly seems to depend upon specific kinds of colors.
And I wonder sometimes if the Pawson interiors might benefit from a small splash of pink, not for the color though.
Woods,
If you turn over th...
Woods,
If you turn over the tarnished word jerk, you'll find this inscribed in gold "WoofWoof Saves The Children".
P.S. I still think you're a Valley Girl but now wearing 3 inch transparent lucite pumps.
*casual readers this is just private banter (certainly hope so).
Some days of pink till start 2011.
Woofwoof, Thanks very much for the link, really interesting, to see things one already know, with a different point of view or how choosing some specific work, and not another, are changed for a different public. Marcos Lopez is one of my favorites local artists photographers. I've been bitting my tongue -using Riki's expression-, but next year I'll can't wait any more, I'll open a thread: I told you so.
Arthur, your good taste to choose pinks is amazing. And Lagorreta is an excelent example. I love it. About cultures and color.... we must be careful... it's not an easy subject. In example design-n-culttures, twice we tried and ended burned, once Heath opened. Yes there were interesting sporadic comments in different threads, but didn't worked in a special thread.
It's a miracle that this thread didn't burned yet
burn pink burn hahhaaaha. We could give a chance to design n culture next year then too.
Colors : culture, geography and psychology.
Geography and culture could be not that subtle, and left that to Hudsonhonu, that is true that generalization is not right, and even more in big countries.
But made me think of Psychology and colors, that provably for pink is one the colors with more ´´Psychology-charge´´, and could be an interest point to understand pink.
About psychology and colors: In some towns the color of the opponent soccer team is so hated that multinational companies needed to change the main color of the brand for specific cities to be possible to sell their products.
Robert, Never Underestimate Pink, indeed is as could be re-named this thread. But the article, to my point of view, is more about beige, and mid-tones. Anyhow the concept is great.
It´s not a discovery, so I'm not afraid to say that here in South America you can see a wide use of color. If I have to find an explanation or reason, could be the sun, the passion, as well as Africans influenced different dances -samba-merengue-salsa-etc- sure did something with colors.
But now, I don't see that clear (or here is were some explanations can be manipulated or not) is the use of the color in other places. For example the nice use of the color in Scandinavia, thinking on Marimmeko for example. The above explanation wouldn't work, could be almost the opposite. I heard that as is so cold and not much light some months: The reason could be to use the color to add what you don`t have. I don`t know if I fund the center of the idea of color but other thing:
Olive: I guess I fund the genetic reason abut that sensitivity of you for the colors, if I remember well you said you have Scandinavian blood, I risk to say that this could be part of the reason.
I've also heard that in North of Europe the color came after the WWII, as a liberation.
pink pics
I?ll add some pink-pics I fund. Not design but photography, and don't know if it good taste, but powerful, that is what I see interesting how is use the pink use to give energy, as Olive said: not for the childishness-girlie that could be the first in mid, but the opposite.
And happy pink new year to all DAers.
Photos:
First by La Chapelle
Second by Marcos Lopez
Third Sweet Cotton cloud by Daniela Edburg
Interesting and precise...
Interesting and precise thoughts on color, gustavo. I tend to generalize too much. One of the better things that comes of generalizations, even when there is more than a grain of truth in them, is that they can get us to start thinking about exceptions, why they might happen, etc., or simply how fortunate it is that they do.
It's hard to imagine the field of psychology in the US without color/gender studies -- they are beyond abundant, some of them even interesting. In that regard, there have been some fascinating new studies on color and technology (television, photography, etc). As a society, we are generally more awash in color all the time, although and therefore some would argue we no longer even notice it, which is maybe part of the reason the Pawson minimalism can seem so striking at times (isn't it Pawson himself who likes to note there are over 50 shades of white).
Neat information about the colors of the soccer teams -- soccer seems from afar (it is not I think as yet a sport of such immense passion in the US) to be off the charts with regard to psychology, lol.
I was trying to think of an NFL football team with pink colors (I can't think of one where pink is primary). Is there one? If not, there probably should be. Any pink soccer teams in South America? Sorry to ramble on so much here, I'll stop with one of my favorite quotes, I believe by Mark Twain: all generalizations are false, including this one.
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http://takeoutphoto.blogspot.com/2009/05/thinking-pink-color-preference-...
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