Color And Light

LIGHT AND COLOR

Color and light are two things that make the work of art bold and lively. Most artist choose their colors based on the mood they are in while painting and others just do it as a guideline to what the audience should feel like by looking at the work. From the Eastfield College Permanent collection, I chose Xie Xiaoze‘s work entitled “The Anatomy Lesson”. This work really stood out to me because of the art and colors the artist chose to use. I was really intrigued by the fact that he painted the living in black outfit and the dead in white. I believe in the artist doing so it was a sort of contradiction but at the same time a way to give audience a big enough space to think of all the possible meaning of the work. Normally we attribute color and light or anything bright to the living because it symbolizes life and then we paint the dead black or dark colors. When I looked at the art for the first time I thought it was for no reason but then I looked at it a couple more times. Finally I concluded that, maybe the dead is in white because once a person is dead, they free of all things even bad things that makes us dirty so when you die, you became clean and when you alive you are in black because you still carry around your entire burden that makes your clothing black. I do think that this artist made a good use of color to engage us in how we should think

XIE XIAOZE

THE ANATOMY LESSON