Chapter 306: The First and Second Painting
“Then let’s look at the seventh painting, ‘Shadow,’ its theme is color.” Zhu Haowen turned to Wei Dong, “Do you have any professional insights as a reference?”
Wei Dong recalled for a moment. “On the surface, the painting seems to express the artist’s devotion to colors, as if he cannot tolerate even the slightest contamination of color. N2vD5c
“But looking deeper, considering the artist’s background and the legend of the fallen flower cavegirls, it actually implies the artist’s fanatical and even extreme worship of black.
“What gave me the deepest impression in that painting were the interweaving and visual impacts of the two extreme colors, black and white, that appeared to us every night. It seemed like, in the artist’s eyes, the world was either black or white, and he sided with the black.”
“So the hint from this painting is darkness, or the evil that darkness represents?” Fang Fei asked.
Ke Xun wore a “this is stupid” expression. “The force behind the painting hints at us that it’s evil? We don’t even need this hint. Of course it’s evil. Isn’t this hint a bit redundant?” Sn8JBZ
Wei Dong waved his hand, thinking aloud, “I don’t think it’s that straightforward. but if you want me to analyze the essence beyond the surface like the bigshot here, I don’t have that ability. I can only think from a color-related perspective.
“If we simply analyze black and white, they are two extremes in color, like positive and negative poles… and speaking of positive and negative poles, naturally, the plus and minus signs come to mind. From the plus and minus signs, I then thought of two color-related definitions: additive color mixing and subtractive color mixing.
“I won’t get into complicated concepts. Simply put, additive color mixing is when the lights of all the colors mix together, resulting in white light; subtractive color mixing is when all the physical color pigments mix together, resulting in black.