Abstract
Introduction to exhibition catalogue "Visual Appropriations and Rewritings" @ Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Highlights
In his famous poem “Vowels,” Arthur Rimbaud associated the letter A with black, E with white, I with red, U with green, O with blue, and his lover’s eyes with purple, but omitted the colour yellow
Yellow is the color of unsayable misery, for instance when Vincent van Gogh describes sunset on a cold wintery day, “a sickly lemon yellow sunset, mysterious, of extraordinary beauty” (21 November 1888)
In the elegantly sober The Princess of Cleves (1678) by Madame de Lafayette, the eponymous character observes at a courtly tournament that the man she secretly loves but cannot marry wears yellow, her favourite colour, and interprets this as the signal – a declaration of love – of an illicit passion that must remain platonic because its consummation would be perceived as treason
Summary
In his famous poem “Vowels,” Arthur Rimbaud associated the letter A with black, E with white, I with red, U with green, O with blue, and his lover’s eyes with purple, but omitted the colour yellow. We chose Hansa yellow for the three large (122x122 cm) and two medium (61x61 cm) canvases on which we installed some of the smaller visual works.
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