「Look at the Picture and Talk about the Painting」Blue: The Perceptual Extension Penetrating the Plane

Blue is the color that is most adept at “crossing boundaries” in art! It is not merely a pigment on the canvas, but a medium that penetrates the two-dimensional plane and leads to profound philosophical contemplation.

Willem de Kooning stirred the oil paints with the wild brushstrokes of action painting, dissolving the physical boundaries of the earth, sky and objects, and transforming the natural landscape into a flowing psychological space.

Mikhail F. Larionov condensed the autumnal imagery on a bright blue background with the silhouette logic of folk prints, breaking through the narrative and formal boundaries of traditional painting.

Yves Klein, through his monochrome paintings, elevated color from a mere descriptive tool to a perceptible spiritual realm, transcending the barriers between the plane and space.

Jean Arp transformed the cold timepiece into an abstract and organic form with a blue and white interwoven dial, endowing the everyday object with a surreal sense of life.

Xu Lei’s “Moon over the Sea” integrates the sky and water, the real and the illusory, with a deep blue, and uses symmetrical composition to create an oriental void realm where the real and the illusory coexist.

The ultimate of blue is not the saturation of vision, but the extension of perception. It has evolved from a visual symbol to a key for reconstructing perception, constantly transcending boundaries to expand the limits of artistic expression, guiding us to glimpse the infinite spiritual universe within the finite canvas.

The tea for today is all gone. Next time, I’ll brew a fresh pot and enjoy art with you again.