Chroma paintings are subtle and elusive, particularly to the camera. They are difficult to reproduce with photography and particularly hard to convey in an image on the computer. The finer than hairline streaks of color are too infinitesimal to be captured and the colors that often shift ever so slightly are lost on the computer screen. In a feeble attempt to show a chroma here, I have placed one in a scanner....just showing a portion of the painting. So here's a photographed image of an entire painting and then a scanned portion. Click on the images to see them in a larger and better format.
Chroma J 19, 2007, oil on paper, 17 x 14 inches
Direct scan of a portion of
Chroma J 19
Having said all this, there's nothing like seeing art in person. No photography can ever capture 'being there'. As we all spend more and more time looking at screens, I worry that our perceptions are more and more often being based on information that is once removed, or even many time removed. Hmmm....so I guess I'll get off my screen now and do something in the 'real world'.
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