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A wall of rocks so brightly reflecting
That their face, tilted to the West, receiving
The sun of afternoon in phases of altering
Colour so deep it went into the roots of hue,
Cooled only slowly toward blue evening.
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Transparent colours are limitless whether illuminated or in darkness, in the same way that fire and air can be understood as their highpoint and lowpoint... The relationship between light and transparent colour is infinitely fascinating if one hazards an attempt to deepen it, and when colours catch fire, and mix, and reappear, and disappear, it is like breathing within the great spans of time between eternity and eternity, from the most exalted light to the eternal, solitary calm of the lowest gradations.
-- Goethe, Theory of Colours, 1810
In short: pure colour is the instrument of fantasy, the land of dreams for a child lost in games.
-- Walter Benjamin, Poring over Children's Books, 1926
Transparent colours are limitless whether illuminated or in darkness, in the same way that fire and air can be understood as their highpoint and lowpoint... The relationship between light and transparent colour is infinitely fascinating if one hazards an attempt to deepen it, and when colours catch fire, and mix, and reappear, and disappear, it is like breathing within the great spans of time between eternity and eternity, from the most exalted light to the eternal, solitary calm of the lowest gradations.
-- Goethe, Theory of Colours, 1810
In short: pure colour is the instrument of fantasy, the land of dreams for a child lost in games.
-- Walter Benjamin, Poring over Children's Books, 1926
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Paintings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Mountaintop, n.d.
The Mountain, n.d
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