{"id":81,"date":"2018-06-15T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2018-06-17T17:45:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T17:45:45","slug":"the-language-of-color","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/solo-shows\/the-language-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherriegallerie.com\/christian-faur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Sherrie Gallerie<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>January 18\u2013February 28, 2009<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Artist Statement<\/h3>\n<p>In my newest body of work, I focus on the semiotic nature of color by using acolor alphabet\u00a0system, which I have developed. This system uses pure color to mimic the function of letters (glyphs) to hold language and forms the basic foundation for many of the experimental works that I have produced.<\/p>\n<p>These works range from a \u201cMating Jacket,\u201d a brightly colored dinner jacket composed of dozens of colored-sentences of male oriented come-ons, pick up lines, slogans, and macho self promotions to an artist book, in which I developed a system of written glyphs to translate Wittgenstein\u2019s text \u201cRemarks on Colour\u201d into pure color.<\/p>\n<p>This color system of writing has also informed many of my other recent works. In the Forgotten Children, a series of photorealistic grayscale portraits of young children composed of tens of thousands of individually stacked crayons-tips, the color-alphabet crayons are used to spell out hundreds of children names within each of the individual panels. The\u00a0Pangram series\u00a0uses holoalphabetic sentences (pangrams) in conjunction with the\u00a0color-alphabet\u00a0to produce a set of colorful abstract encaustic works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherrie Gallerie January 18\u2013February 28, 2009 Artist Statement In my newest body of work, I focus on the semiotic nature of color by using acolor alphabet\u00a0system, which I have developed. This system uses pure color to mimic the function of letters (glyphs) to hold language and forms the basic foundation for many of the experimental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/183"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}