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David Batchelor is a renowned British artist known for his research and creation on color. His work often involves color theory, visual art, and philosophical contemplation, exploring the perception and meaning of color through various media such as painting, sculpture, and installation art.

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All Colour Materials Use Becoming Break Certain Detached Disturbing Essentials Everyday

Famous David Batchelor Quotes

“Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.”

Book:Chromophobia

Source: Chromophobia

“I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence... So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence.”

Ifs Littles Use Form Existence Break Becoming Pure Everyday Colour Detached Transcendental

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“Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.”

Way Ideas Certain Materials

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“The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.”

Use Materials Essentials

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“Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.”

Order Language Theory Limits Rational Colour Disturbing Insufficiency

Book:Gary Hume: British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale, 13 June-7 Novermer 1999

Source: Gary Hume: British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale, 13 June-7 Novermer 1999

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Born: July 17, 1955
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 5

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