Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today // canavarlar

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Color Chart celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when
contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source,
or arbitrary system. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held
convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular
colors gave way to an excitement about color as a mass-produced and
standardized commercial product. The Romantic quest for personal
expression instead became Andy Warhol's "I want to be a machine;" the
artistry of mixing pigments was eclipsed by Frank Stella's "Straight out of
the can; it can't get better than that." Color Chart is the first major
exhibition devoted to this pivotal transformation, featuring work by some
forty artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie
Levine and Damien Hirst.

www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/colorchart/