Reimagining a Colour Narrative
Creative Colour Workshop, in collaboration with the Gallo-Roman Museum Tongeren.
Exploring – recording – creating. These activities will take you through a hands-on investigation and exploration of colour awareness, colour measurement and notation, all while mapping the colours of selected works in the exhibition ‘Antiquity in Colour’ at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, Belgium’s oldest city.
Together we will explore the notion of real (measured) and perceived colour and analyse the intricate dynamics of colour, form, scale, material and pattern. Exploring the narrative of the past will offer the inspiration for the stories of today, your stories.
Through colour matching, you will create colour palettes and develop your own colour combinations inspired directly by the exhibition, the stories from mythology and eventually your own stories and memories. You will explore these colour narratives and colour associations by creating art compositions, combining collages of coloured paper and written words. The old stories are thus to give birth to the new ones.
The workshop ends with a mini art exhibition of participants’ work.
BY THE END OF THE WORKSHOP, YOU WILL:
- learn how to view, record, analyse and experiment with colour
- expand skills and grow confidence in making colour choices, creating cohesive and meaningful colour palettes and combinations
- form a narrative through colour and composition
- understand and translate historical colour information into an art or design project, inspired by personal reflection, the power of storytelling and memory
- gain a set of new skills and tools for your creative practice
- gain confidence to explore and recognise the multifaceted nature of colour and the ability to discuss colour, colour associations and cultural connections
- learn to ask critical questions about the role and meaning of colour in antiquity, art, design and architecture
FOR
creative professionals in general, lovers of history and colour.
SPEAKERS
Maja Kaurin, Jeannette Hanenburg, Inez Michiels
LANGUAGE
English-Nederlands
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