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Hideki Nakazawa
Gray Paintings
2005 - 2006

Gray Painting #1 (With Cyan, Magenta and Yellow)       2005
Gray Painting #2 (With Cyan, Magenta and Yellow)       2005
Gray Painting #3 (With Cyan, Magenta and Yellow)       2005
Gray Painting #4 (With Cyan, Magenta and Yellow)       2005
Gray Painting #5 (With Cyan, Magenta and Yellow)       2005
Gray Painting #6 (With Cyan, Magenta and Yellow)       2006
Gray Painting #7 (With Cyan, Magenta and Yellow)       2006
Gray Painting #8 (With Cyan, Magenta and Yellow)       2006
Gray Painting #9 (With Cyan, Magenta and Yellow)       2006
Gray Painting #10 (With Cyan, Magenta and Yellow)     2006

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Color is the essence of painting, and it is perceived by three types of retinal cone cells. In this series, Nakazawa used the same quantity of cyan, magenta and yellow which was sent from the retina to the brain (Mental Color Mixture) to make the total perceptive information gray. The physiological effects, a color theory called retinal color mixture by the impressionists, color printing, and digital graphics technology are all utilized in these works through a mathematical method called ternary notation. [more]

brochure A brochure was published by Gallery Cellar.

Hideki Nakazawa / Gray Paintings
16 pages, B5 size, color
Text: Hitoshi Takaoka "Absolute Color Painting by Mental Color Mixture"
(c) 2006 Gallery Cellar

- The cover gary, printed without K-ink, is of retinal color mixture.
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