But now we have a chance to see how his ideas colour his art.
Each look was piled high with ideas, vibrant colours and rich textures – starting with the opening outfit, which consisted of wide-legged khaki trousers, knee-length overcoat with goat hair collar, ruby red jacquard blouse and feathered organza neckpiece in chartreuse and violet.
I've got ideas on colour palettes.
But the movie is such a riot of ideas and colour that this is no deal-breaker.
The ideas for colour that she had sketched out in the early hours during the war, and of interiorised forms, became a reality in the woodcarvings she made in the late 40s.
It is, at best, an object in space that reflects certain wavelengths of light, which are then interpreted by human eyes and brains as conforming with certain ideas of colour.
Venice was certainly receptive to Mannerist influence as seen in the works of Titian after 1530, Tintoretto, and Veronese but, with the exception of Andrea Meldolla (Schiavone), Venetian painting continued to be dominated by non-Mannerist ideas in colouring and expression.
"He cannot accept the client as a full partner".Even though, holding his nose, he capitulated at the Getty to the neighbour's "whimsical ideas" about colour, Mr Meier defends his belief in white.
The German polymath's ideas on colour were muddled, but they opened the way to Chevreul's and influenced J. M. W. Turner, whose palette, smeared with a muddy impasto of russets and greens, is showcased across the room.
I had no idea their "colours" had been handed to them by the Brisbane city chapter founder, Steve Mitrovic, a Sydney bikie boss who had raked in $11m from steel-fixing contracts on the Gold Coast university hospital and Brisbane high-rises before he was murdered months earlier.
