« Le noir, une non-couleur ? Où avez-vous encore pris cela ? Le noir, mais c’est la reine des couleurs ! » — Renoir (1841-1919)
• “Black, a non-color? Where did you get that idea? Black, why, it’s the queen of colors!”
Category Archives: Art
Green Seen
When you stare at the cross for at least 30 seconds, you see three illusions:
• A gap running around the circle of lilac discs;
• A green disc running around the circle of lilac discs in place of the gap; and
• The green disc running around on the grey background, with the lilac discs having disappeared in sequence. — Lilac Chaser, Wikipedia
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Troxler’s fading at Wikipedia
Gorge the Gaze on God’s Gift
“The fact is, that, of all God’s gifts to the sight of man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.” — John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, Vol. 2 (1853)
The Chimera Eye
Chimerical colors (from Wikipedia)
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Five Alive
A handsome hamsa (image from The Fair Trade Store)
Domestic Abyss
Abyss-illusion rug in blue and yellow (image from Temu)
Old Gold
Golden Light (1893) by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93)
On the Fuzzth Day…
Rock & Rule
(Image by David Kelso-Mitchell 2023)
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The Yartz of Yarz
Les Pyrénees, a tapestry by Edmond Yarz (1845-1920)
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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
The title of this incendiary intervention corely references the quondam Australian cultural attaché Sir Colin Lesley Patterson, who once boasted that “I chair the Cheese Board, I front the Yartz / You could term me a man of many parts.” For further details, please see:
• “In Terms of My Natural Life” — a pome by Les Patterson
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 