{"id":3520,"date":"2025-04-28T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2025-04-28T09:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:42:42","slug":"to-be-immersed-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"To Be Immersed in Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To be immersed.\u00a0\u00a0To be immersed in color, through the body medium.\u00a0\u00a0Matisse wrote, \u201cI must be so penetrated, so impregnated by my subject, that I can draw it with my eyes closed.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Color emanates as a primal force in the Azure of Matisse\u2019s Mediterranean canvases, his magnificent chapel in Vence, France:\u00a0 \u201cAfter a certain moment it is no longer me, but a revelation: all I have to do is to give myself up to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As sure as a teabag is steeped, an idea saturates things, as a mind is whetted and wetted with thought, it will flow beyond itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The traditional tannery workers in F\u00e8s seem to be the ultimate act of immersion: could they be more immersed in color?\u00a0\u00a0Could they put their whole selves into their craft, crawling into vats that fill entire planes with dyes once and often still of turmeric, indigo, pomegranate, mimosa flower, saffron and indigo?\u00a0\u00a0Sinewy limbs stripped to the waist, having cleaned skins with limestone and softened them with pigeon guana droppings.\u00a0\u00a0The radical \u201870s artists who dipped their naked bodies in paint, then rolled on canvases had the same idea. To be one with.\u00a0\u00a0Saturate. With not an ounce of doubt or self or restraint. They are beautiful in a way that horrifies us \u2013 how is their health?\u00a0\u00a0Their pay, their hours?\u00a0\u00a0But they uphold long cultural tradition that dovetails with seeking union, here with color.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m in.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To be immersed.\u00a0\u00a0To be immersed in color, through the body medium.\u00a0\u00a0Matisse wrote, \u201cI must be so penetrated, so impregnated by my subject, that I can draw it with my eyes closed.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Color emanates as a primal force in the Azure of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1093,1609,7,1524,1608],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-color","tag-immersion","tag-matisse","tag-saturation","tag-tannery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-UM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}