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Lot 187
HUANG MINGCHUN (B.1971)
Light 7
Closed2 December 2021
Price Realised
HKD 106,250
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Specialist note
“"The Unification of Light and Color” Light is color, and color is light. Thus, the primary colors of light and pigments should not be defined separately by the traditional theory.”
In science, the subtractive theory is also known as the Elimination of Primary Colors, which is more easily observable in pigment and reflective light source. But when we further understand the attenuation of natural light, we will see that the subtractive theory, as opposed to the additive theory, relates closer to the reality of light. In the subtractive theory, we take the secondary colors of light (magenta, yellow and cyan) as the primary colors of pigment and change cyan to viridian green, so whether light or pigment, the mixture and changes will start from white (brightest) to black (darkest). In this way, light and pigment not only unify to form the new three primary colors of Color-Light, they also combine logic and application, making paintings more true to life, recreating light and color with realism.
— Ming-Chun Huang
In science, the subtractive theory is also known as the Elimination of Primary Colors, which is more easily observable in pigment and reflective light source. But when we further understand the attenuation of natural light, we will see that the subtractive theory, as opposed to the additive theory, relates closer to the reality of light. In the subtractive theory, we take the secondary colors of light (magenta, yellow and cyan) as the primary colors of pigment and change cyan to viridian green, so whether light or pigment, the mixture and changes will start from white (brightest) to black (darkest). In this way, light and pigment not only unify to form the new three primary colors of Color-Light, they also combine logic and application, making paintings more true to life, recreating light and color with realism.
— Ming-Chun Huang