Colori. Emotions of Color in Art

The book investigates the use of color in art through artistic movements and research that stand apart from canonical histories on color and abstraction, with multiple accounts relating to memory, politics, spirituality, storytelling, psychology and synesthesia.
By analyzing the different color theories that gradually took shape in the turbulent socio-political context that characterized the 20th century, Emotions of Color in Art reflects on a perspective that considers light, its vibrations and the world of emotions, while challenging the standardization of the use of color in the modern age (synthetic colors) and the digital era (RGB colors offered by various online palettes), a leveling that considerably reduces our ability to distinguish colors in the real world.



Works by: William Turner, Édouard Manet, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Giacomo Balla, aul Klee, Alexander Calder, Josef Albers, Mark Rothko, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Victor Vasarely, Mario Schifano, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Alighiero Boetti, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, James Turrell, Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Ed Atkins and many more.