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1.“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls,” (Pablo Picasso). 

2. From 1912-1948, the Olympic Games awarded medals for artworks inspired by sport. 

3. The phrase “state-of-the-art” applied to the latest technology was first recorded in 1955. 

4. The only painting sold by Vincent van Gogh in his lifetime was The Red Vineyard which was bought by the Belgian artist Anna Boch. 

5. Four of the 21 most expensive paintings sold at auction are by van Gogh and four by Picasso.

6. In 1961, Henri Matisse’s painting Le Bateau was hung upside down at New York’s Museum of Modern Art for 46 days before anyone noticed. 

7. When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, the empty space it left on the wall attracted more visitors than the painting had. 

8. A world record of 8ft 6in for the highest flying toast from a pop-up toaster was set at the Royal College of Art graduate show in 2008. 

9. “Art, n. This word has no definition,” (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1906). 

10. The Oxford English Dictionary offers 12 different meanings for the noun ‘art’.

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ART IS LIFE

Art and Life

The true professional artist believes it is a calling, therefore, an assignment by the Creator. The creative mind is triggered off into an irrepressible current of inspired mind. The ultimate assignment is equipped with a workshop to create joy, appoint laughter and to cheer and relax the spirit and the soul of man and therapeutically propel peace into man’s existence. Life with art accommodates and generates tolerance and also suppresses the fury of hatred.

Can you imagine life with barks and no laughter, pictures without colour, or horrors with no humour? A masquerade world of individuality. It is only the uncultured rich that swears to destroy entertainment when the artist sweats to create entertainment in humour – comedy, graphics, fine arts, sculpture, movies, performing arts, dance, drama, music all in fulfillment of the assignment from the creator. These are too many to eradicate like vermin. Let’s get together to make a good world better and sweeter. Keep the arts alive.

Sad to say, it has been an uphill task for the assigned artists in Nigeria. “He is ostracized by his family, outcast by society and cheapened by the rich.” Let this nation embrace him, so that together we can harvest the seed of talent and endowment bestowed through him to Nigeria. Oil is small, Art is the Baba; wells may dry, man is world forever. It has worked for many other nations. Is it that Nigeria is too busy to relax?

The artist lives with the hope of fulfillment yet without assurance of gratuity before his end. It hurts but he cries in the rain so no one sees his tears. The Nigerian performing artist was tolerated during the colonial era with a permit called the “Beggars’ license”. Since independence, he has been allowed to operate free. Now the Arts as a profession is commercialized but not organized. Let the government structure the Arts and we will have a giant industry.

The artist suspects a conspiracy to kill the Arts, because there have been too many signs to make suspect so. Yet the artist is determined to survive and fight to keep art alive and be fulfilled in the assignment. Reggae and Hip-hop artists seem to brave the unseen threats and painters’ long gray beards cannot afford the scissors or shavers; if they cannot kill the industry they seem to be determined to erase and blot out the artist from the nation with no salary, no gratuity, no endowment fund, and no future.

Some of the pioneer artists have passed on to the great beyond “unsung”. The ones alive have weakened will-power to create from poor empty pockets. Nigeria arts lovers under the banner of the National Council for Arts and Culture still managed to score a first in the arts circle worldwide by creating a truly supportive umbrella for the Nigerian artist by establishing the first enabling environment for the artist tagged the “Artists Village”, the first in Africa.

I have not known of any other through America and Europe. I only knew and visited Hollywood in California, Elstree and Pine wood studios in England. In my visits I checked out Broadway USA and west end in England. The Artists Village at the National Theatre complex in Iganmu is truly a step in the right direction towards the survival of Arts in Nigeria.

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COLOUR AND ITS MEANING

How Colour Communicates Meaning

Color is the aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by them.
It is a powerful and important communication tool, and it is tied to religious, cultural, political and social influences.

By stopping to consider what each colour represents and is linked to in the ‘real world’ we can make informed design decisions that ensure we appeal to our target audience. Without this consideration we run the risk of offending the very people were are designing for.

#1 It Affects your Mood

Most of us have a favourite colour or prefer some colours over others. This is because can affect our moods so we surround ourselves in the colours that have a positive impact on our mood.

Red can boost your energy, yellow often makes people feel happier, and blue is proven to bring down blood pressure and slow your heart rate which is why it is often associated with being relaxing. If you combine the happiness of yellow and the relaxing feel of blue you get green, a very pleasing colour for many people.

Mental health units are known to use pastel tones on their walls so that patients feel calm, happy, and relaxed. Walls that are beige with a pink tint combined with mint green floors are a popular combination as it is said to create a soothing, harmonious and calm area. At the other end of the spectrum, literally, schools tend to user bright colours that appeal to children.

When choosing colours for your next design it is important to consider how they will combine and sit with the other elements on the page and what impact that will have on the mood of your audience.

#2 Colours Communicate Invisibly

Wassily Kandinsky was one of the first pioneers of colour theory. A renowned Russian painter and art theorist, he is often considered the founder of abstract art. Kandinsky believed the following colours communicate the following qualities:

• Yellow – warm, exciting, happy
• Blue – deep, peaceful, supernatural
• Green – peace, stillness, nature
• White – harmony, silence, cleanliness
• Black – grief, dark, unknown
• Red – glowing, confidence, alive
• Orange – radiant, healthy, serious

#3 Colour has Cultural Significance

Different colours mean different things in different places. This is extremely important for designers to know because without an awareness of the cultural significance of a particular colour, you risk offending your entire target audience.

Purple for example is a colour of mourning in Thailand. In western culture however, it is associated with royalty, luxury, wealth and sometimes magic. The brand colour for Thai Airways is purple. On first glance this seems like a huge error on their part because as mentioned above, purple is a colour of mourning in Thailand.

It is most likely however, that the Thai Airways website isn’t aimed at locals but at tourists, therefore if westerners view the site and see purple it will associate Thai Airways with values such as luxury and comfort.

Other examples are:

• In western cultures black is a colour of mourning
• In Japan however it is a colour of honour, with white the colour of mourning
• Red in the west represents danger, love, passion
• In India it is a colour of purity, in China it is a colour of good luck and in South Africa it is a colour of mourning
• Yellow represents courage in Japan, mourning in Egypt and hope in the West

#4 Colour can be Inspired by our Surroundings

We live in a colourful world, a world that acts as the perfect inspirational trigger for design. The best thing about looking to the environment for design solutions is that the palette is always changing, from autumnal oranges to cold winter blues. So where better to look than out of your window, take in the colours and then apply them to your designs.

Drawing inspiration from nature for your designs also makes you look at the world differently. Normally we whiz by from place to place but you notice the finer details and undiscovered gems when you actually stop to take it in.

#5 Colour has Political Associations

Individual political parties are associated with one colour or another. Depending on whom your audience is, this might prove to be valuable information when designing.

The association between political parties and colours isn’t a new connection but it is often taken for granted. In the UK for example the following pairings exist:

• Labour – Red
• Conservative – Blue
• Liberal Democrats – Yellow
• The Green Party – Green

If a colour is representative of a political party then the values and behaviours that the party is known for can be suggested through the use of this colour.

• Red is often linked to socialism and communism
• White has links to pacifism and the surrender flag. In contrast to this, black is a colour that is used in conjunction with anarchism.
• Working class Nazism is associated with the colour brown as the SA were known as the ‘brownshirts’.

A design with one of these colours as the dominant shade may well hint at a right wing or a left wing preference or at extreme behaviours.

#6 Religion can be Linked to Colours

As with politics, colours are representative of certain religions. So as not to unintentionally offend anyone through your designs, some examples of these colour/religion associations are:

• Green is considered to be the holy colour of Islam
• Judaism is represented by the colour yellow
• In Hinduism, many gods have blue skin
• White is linked to peace across many religions

Again this may only be necessary information if you are designing a site that has specific links to religion but it also emphasises that a thorough knowledge of your audience is a fundamental part of the design process.

#7 Age Affects People’s Colour Preferences

Colour expert Faber Birren carried out many studies into this area and in his book Color Psychology and ColorTherapy, he states that for both genders, blue and red “maintain a high preference throughout life”. He found that yellow is popular with children but as become move into adulthood it shows less popularity. Birren found that “with maturity comes a greater liking for hues of shorter wave length (blue, green, purple) than for hues of longer wave length (red, orange, and yellow)”

Another factor that influences people’s colour preferences is that throughout their life there will be social and cultural changes and this can directly impact on their favourite colours. Some knowledge of what colours certain age ranges prefer can be valuable for designers. If you were designing a website for a toy store or a children’s TV channel, then knowing they prefer bright colours and yellow in particular would help with your design decisions.

Likewise, if you designed a website for a charity whereby the audience was to be the older generation then blue, green or purple might be ideal, based on Birren’s findings.

Conclusion

Colour is a complex subject with many strands and it has the power to subliminally convey values and stories.