“La vie aux Tuileries” is an artwork with expression of color.
We chose the statues in Tuileries as an artistic choice since it makes one feel more “familiar,” when there is no barricade. However, the history or concept of these statues has literally nothing to do with our project, and it could be any statues as long as there were no barriers.
EXTRA knowledge: These sculptures are made by Aristide Maillol to purely admire beauty of Dina Vierny. Maillol kept making the themes of her until his last moment, and Vierny donated the sculptures to France after his death. Now it is installed in Tuileries.
The color gives life and vibe depends on which color. Statue is an artificial still object that doesn’t represent any movement. However, the statues in Tuileries are a bit different than any other statues in Paris; it doesn’t have barrier. Since the statues are so interactive and “familiar”, we decided to give them a life by fitting them into boxes. The each color of boxes indicates different vibe, and the statues comments depends on the color and shape of itself.
Process
First, we studied representation of color.
Reference; https://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-pink/
Red: the color of blood and fire, is associated with meanings of love, passion, desire, heat, longing, lust, sexuality, sensitivity, romance, joy, strength, leadership, courage, vigor, willpower, rage, anger, danger, malice, wrath, stress, action, vibrance, radiance, and determination. The color red is a highly visible color that is able to focus attention quickly and get people to make quick decisions, which is one of the reasons fire trucks and fire engines are usually painted red. Flashing red lights mean danger or emergency, while stop signs and stop lights use the color red to alert drivers about the dangers of the intersection. It represents power and courage.
Blue: represents both the sky and the sea, and is associated with open spaces, freedom, intuition, imagination, expansiveness, inspiration, and sensitivity. Blue also represents meanings of depth, trust, loyalty, sincerity, wisdom, confidence, stability, faith, heaven, and intelligence. The color blue has positive effects on the mind and the body. As the color of the spirit, it invokes rest and can cause the body to produce chemicals that are calming and exude feelings of tranquility. Blue helps to slow human metabolism, is cooling in nature, and helps with balance and self-expression. Blue is also an appetite suppressant.
Green: the color of life, renewal, nature, and energy, is associated with meanings of growth, harmony, freshness, safety, fertility, and environment. Green is also traditionally associated with money, finances, banking, ambition, greed, jealousy, and wall street. The color green has healing power and is understood to be the most restful and relaxing color for the human eye to view. Green can help enhance vision, stability and endurance. Green takes up more space in the spectrum visible to the human eye and it is the dominant color in the natural. It is a natural choice in interior design as an ideal background or backdrop because we as humans are so used to seeing it everywhere.
Pink: a delicate color that means sweet, nice, playful, cute, romantic, charming, feminine, and tenderness, is associated with bubble gum, flowers, babies, little girls, cotton candy, and sweetness. The color pink is the color of universal love of oneself and of others. Pink represents friendship, affection, harmony, inner peace, and approachability. Pink is the official color for little girls and represents sugar and spice and everything nice. Pink is the sweet side of the color red. While the color red stirs up passion, aggression, and action, large amounts of the color pink can actually create physical weakness. Both red and pink represent love. The color red represents heat and passion, while the color pink represents romance and charm. Hot pink is used to communicate playfulness, while light pink is used to communicate tenderness.
Purple: combines the calm stability of blue and the fierce energy of red. The color purple is often associated with royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition. Purple also represents meanings of wealth, extravagance, creativity, wisdom, dignity, grandeur, devotion, peace, pride, mystery, independence, and magic.The color purple is a rare occurring color in nature and as a result is often seen as having sacred meaning. Lavender, orchid, lilac, and violet flowers are considered delicate and precious.The color purple has a variety of effects on the mind and body, including uplifting spirits, calming the mind and nerves, enhancing the sacred, creating feelings of spirituality, increasing nurturing tendencies and sensitivity, and encouraging imagination and creativity. Purple is associated spirituality, the sacred, higher self, passion, third eye, fulfillment, and vitality. Purple helps align oneself with the whole of the universe. Different shades, tints, and hues of purple have different meanings. Light purple hues represent feminine energy and delicacy, as well as romantic and nostalgic feelings. Dark purple hues evoke feelings of gloom, sadness, and frustration. Bright purple hues suggest riches and royalty.
After taking the pictures, we removed people from the photos, made shape of cubes by pen, then changed color by color balance on photoshop.
After, we made comments according to the color theme.
Also, in terms of exploring the 8 cubic square maters, we made 3D modelling of the box.
The ankh is an ancient symbol of life, and we were thinking about installing the statues inside of the box.
but considering the color theme, we chose otherwise.
