Leonardo da Vinci, St. Anne, the Virgin and Child with the Lamb (detail), 1510-13ca Colour has its own qualities of representation of space not connected to figuration. This is an aspect that Itten himself (Johannes Itten 1888-1967) debated in his essay Art of Colour (1961), but which we would like to exemplify here through the work (1) of an artist, also a lecturer at the Bauhaus like Itten, who deals with the spatial capacities of colour throughout his life. […]
Caravaggio, Flagellation of Christ, detail, 1607 Light can suggest the volumetric spatiality of subjects, animated or inanimate, and a lasting or temporary temporality of events. Throughout the history of art, geographical productions have been marked by different types of representation that, from time to time, underwent declinations according to the ages. We would like to compare three of these different typologies in order to differentiate the three different ways of understanding representation, space and time. If we examine a […]
