Renato Falcao's (Ice Age: Continental Draft) cinematography picks up all the rich colors imagined by Melanie Martini's set decoration.
Then give that confidence a color and imagine spreading that color up to the top of your head and down to the tips your toes.
His incalculably witty "Course of Empire," which excited visitors at last summer's Venice Biennale and is now at the Whitney, proves it: five large "Blue Collar" paintings, from 1992, which depict generic industrial structures that Ruscha calls "blocks with words," in blackand-white, matched with new versions, in color, that imagine the buildings' fates little more than a decade later.
It's a dramatic and vivid picture from the Hubble Space Telescope, with colors I imagine J. M. W. Turner would have admired, of the Cone Nebula, a pillar of dust and gas some 2,500 light-years from Earth.
With at least two new GECs (Colors and Imagine) launched since 2008 and more than 40 million cable homes getting added every year, Television Audience Measurement's (TAM) CEO L.V. Krishnan says this could just be the beginning because with digitization this trend will get accentuated and "channels will have to brand themselves like an FMCG product".
After the initial response that red is a color, Pound imagines asking for a definition of color and having it described in terms of vibration, with vibration then defined in terms of energy, and that successive abstractions eventually reach a level where language has lost its power.
Focus your mind on the color blue and imagine the blue color surrounding your throat area and then imagine it surrounds your entire body.
Worst color scheme imagined, but relevant and memorable.
(In "In Full Color," Dolezal imagines herself a slave).
So it is with Rubens, who equalled Titian — a painter he came to revere in his twenties, during a decisive, eight-year sojourn in Italy — at merging color with imagined textures of flesh and fabric.
