{"id":637,"date":"2011-10-08T22:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T22:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=637"},"modified":"2011-10-13T19:43:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:43:26","slug":"colour-before-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Heron &#8211; (Colour before detail)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_638\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Patric-Heron-White-Table-1955TheWhiteTable_by_PatrickHeron.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-638\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-638\" title=\"Patrick Heron - White Table - 1955TheWhiteTable_by_PatrickHeron\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Patric-Heron-White-Table-1955TheWhiteTable_by_PatrickHeron.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Patric-Heron-White-Table-1955TheWhiteTable_by_PatrickHeron.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Patric-Heron-White-Table-1955TheWhiteTable_by_PatrickHeron-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Patric-Heron-White-Table-1955TheWhiteTable_by_PatrickHeron-391x300.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Heron - The White Table - 1955 - 71 x 91 cm - 28 x 36 in - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This gorgeous still life by British artist Patrick Heron is a superb example of reducing information to enable colour to come forth.\u00a0 In other words &#8220;colour before detail&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He has provided us with a beautiful harmony which sings.\u00a0 The dance of the yellow shapes and the rhythm of pink verticals are fantastic.\u00a0 Reducing the plate to red lines and using the red to take you through the composition is very sophisticated.\u00a0 Heron used the grid, or rectangles, as the primary motif and the blacks are in wonderful harmony with the bright colours.\u00a0 Also enjoy the subtle rhythm of the white ovals, just above the plate.\u00a0 And his sensitive consideration of a row of small black shapes to the right which complement or support the blacks on the plate beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Heron was greatly influenced by Braque, Bonnard and Matisse and he credited Matisse&#8217;s painting &#8220;The Red Studio&#8221; for setting him on his mature path which was creating paintings of colour, which naturally led him to abstraction.<\/p>\n<p>I think having colour as your subject is a very challenging open consideration in art, and Heron was a exceptional colourist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This gorgeous still life by British artist Patrick Heron is a superb example of reducing information to enable colour to come forth.\u00a0 In other words &#8220;colour before detail&#8221;. He has provided us with a beautiful harmony which sings.\u00a0 The dance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}