Speaking of New York (see today’s previous post), last Sunday, The Museum of Modern Art opened “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today.” According to an article in today’s New York Times, “The show looks at contemporary artists for whom color functions as a ready-made — something to be bought or appropriated, rather than mixed on a palette. As Frank Stella famously quipped, “I tried to keep the paint as good as it was in the can.”’

“Ten Large Color Panels” by Gerhard Richter

An entire wall is devoted to Gerhard Richter’s “Ten Large Color Panels” (1966-71/72), a 31-foot sequence comprised of ready-mixed paint bought from a hardware store. Looking at this brings on happy flashbacks to the color theory class I took while a student at CCS. I use the stuff I learned in that class every day.