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Opportunities

Exploration of Color

An Online Exhibition

About the Call

Color is both a representation or symbol of something else and a subject in its own right. There is a certain mystery to color – its power, effect, and centrality – in the history of art. It is something extensively studied, put into practice, and viewed without ever truly being known. Color is universal (and the effect of its absence) are near universal, but artists’ relationship with it is far from uniform. The Venetian school of Renaissance prized the power colorito, “coloring” to create vital and glowing images. Helen Frankenthaler’s “soak-stain” paintings washed the canvas in incredible arrays of color. Almost all periods of art have used color, to recreate reality, enhance it, or transcend it altogether. Site:Brooklyn is looking for work that explores and harnesses color today.