Frances to Armando as requested but with difficulty... If you mean the pure form of color as an immediate abstract object represented unto itself alone, without its referring to any other object as a "realistic" content or subject, where such color is as an accidental splash of color being a dot or spot or blot or mark, and if you mean the effect this colored shape as a vague figure has on viewers in its being able to incite an implied sense of gravity by illusory depiction, then colors that are say dark in shapes that are large and located near the bottom of the pictorial ground in the bounded frame will seem to be heavy and close and major. This color is a subicon that will be similar at least to a quality of feeling, and may even incite a synaesthetic experience, and perhaps may also be similar to the paint on the house across the street. (Your statement written below by the way still did not clarify the point well to me.)
Incidentally and if this is relevant to the thread on gravity, the feeling that things which appear "up" might actually be better than those that appear "down" may be a culturally determined feeling caused by the natural environment of the native inhabitants, especially if they live mostly in the lower valleys of a mountainous land. Those that live mostly in the higher hostile mountains of a land with deep valleys and green canyons would likely feel just the opposite, that "down" is better or good. (If memory serves me, this notion of higher "upness" as being aesthetically good may have roughly been the basic premise of the psychical theory of art posited by Vernon Lee and others decades ago which entailed the expressive empathetic projection of lofty highness upon the artwork.) You wrote... "I'm referring of color as a a representation of color, Like music ,words, feelings, aesthetic or thoughts, not as a representation of objects, although they could be part of it. I would appreciate a less wordy answer if you don't mind. save it for your book." On May 12, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Frances Kelly wrote: > Frances to Armando and other visual artists out there... > Let me try to rewrite the question, because it may be a little > hazy. If the question is correctly understood by me, you seem to > be asking whether the depiction of gravity in a picture, either > abstractly implied or actually illustrated, will affect the > sensed existence of color in that same picture. You are > presumably not referring to the presence of actual gravity on the > earth to which the framed picture and the material color in it > would be pulled towards. You are rather presumably referring to > the illusory effect of implied gravity on the phenomenal > appearance of color that actually seems to exist in the picture. > Perhaps you could correct or confirm some of this. > You wrote... > I guess, what i'm trying to find out is... is color always > affected by Gravity in it's existence in painting?
