Albers, Josef. Interaction Of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition. Yale University Press, (c) 1963, 2006
Josef Albers wrote in his legendary book "Interaction of Color" the Weber-Fechner Law: "The visual perception of an arithmetical progression depends upon a physical geometric progression"
that being a little dense- what he getting at here?
to put it poetically, "sometimes you must exaggerate the truth to tell the truth"
Its an interesting point- here is empirically derived information describing the discrepancies between an physical representation (an objective device, or visual) and a psychological (or visceral) response.
andrew, FANTASTIC! this is a subject which is immensely interesting to me: what IS truth? as a person - but especially as an artist - it is something i've long considered. from the time we're young and first starting to distinguish between "actual" and "not actual" we want to know: "is this a true story?" "did this really happen?" but a factually-correct story is not always the truth!
ReplyDeletei never knew how to express this until 11th grade, when i read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried in English class.
i want to share a quote from the chapter "How to Tell a True War Story" (which is tough, because i really just want to type out the whole chapter. if you haven't read it, i'll lend it to you):
"In many cases a true war story cannot be believed. If you believe it, be skeptical. It's a question of credibility. Often the crazy stuff is true and the normal stuff isn't, because the normal stuff is necessary to make you believe the truly incredible craziness" (p. 71).
and a quote from the chapter “Good Form”:
“But listen. Even that story is made up. I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth” (p. 179).
how great, right? the truth is what i need to tell you in order to make you feel the way i felt.
love,caro