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Artist #1 - colour theory: Danae Valenza; 'Colour Piano for Chromatic Portraits'

Artist #1 related to colour theory, Danae Valenza. This is useful for research surrounding artists who work with colour theory and is interesting to see how different artists use colour theory in their work.

Artist #1: Danae Valenza

Danae Valenza's Colour Piano for Chromatic Portraits

 

Featured in ACCA's exhibition, 'new '14', colour piano for chromatic portraits is a beautiful installation piece. Danae Valenza is an artist as well as a musician. Valenza has created a spectacular interactive installation featuring a coloured piano with 88 keys rigged up to 88 hand-painted light-bulbs. Every day a pianist took on the role of playing songs on the piano, which also becomes a light display. This work drew on Valenza's idea that she wanted to capture a song in a picture.herald sun

 

 

Valenza has used colour theory in her work to assign each key out of 88 a specific colour before hand painting the light-bulb that is connected to that particular key, suspended from the ceiling.

Featured above: 'Colour piano' for colour chromatic portraits. (All images and videos are not my own and are courtesy of various websiites and resources.) Top left: Gallery of various images of 'Colour piano', Bottom, left: interview with Danae Valenza for ACCA, new '14, Bottom, right: performance of colour chromatic portraits featuring 'colour piano'

Educators: This is useful for research surrounding artists who work with colour theory and is interesting to see how different artists use colour theory in their work.

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