Architecture and colour: artistic interventions. Three Swiss cases
Abstract
The article presents the work of three Swiss artists who have collaborated on a number of occasions on the chromatic concept in architecture: Helmut Federle, Adrian Schiess and Rémy Zaugg. Despite belonging to the same artistic scene, their points of view when working with colour are different. They are associated with the ideas of the Swiss colour theorist, Johannes Itten, who also establishes three possible points of view when addressing the aesthetic problem of colours: the intellectual and symbolic point of view (colour construction), the psychological point of view (expression of colour) and the sensitive and optical point of view (colour impression). The article illustrates the similarities between the three artists and these three points of view respectively, although some coincidences were identified.
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