Jaime Prades

It may sound crazy, but for a long time black was not considered a color. Since the discovery of the spectrum of light by Isaac Newton, black and white, they have been relegated to the status of 'non-colors'. This lasted until mid-1910, when artists began to incorporate it into paintings with the same value as other colors, such as Malevich's emblematic 'Black Square'. Before that, Manet already baffled viewers with his massive blacks amid his realistic / impressionist canvases. The color that is read as the absence of something, bothers.

Perhaps because the black color in the arts generally has a negative charge, being linked to meanings such as mourning, fear, loneliness. But black is also a dynamic and vivid color and you can see that on the screen “Negra 2” by Jaime Prades (@pradesartist). When entering the room in which it is exposed, something calls attention to the background. It appears to be an entirely black picture. But when you get close you can see sinuous lines that dance at a different frequency, yet in black. This overlapping of analogous colors, experienced by suprematists and abstract expressionists like Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, gains with Prades a spiritual tone, a spiritual one that refers to the cosmos. Gravitational waves dancing in the "void" of the universe. When observing the work we see that this void is well filled. It makes me think of the dynamics of the universe that occur in the midst of darkness. How so much goes on out there while we live our lives here on earth. It makes me think of the primordial and that before everything there was darkness.

• Works in the post:
[1] Jaime Prades Black 2, 2016 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 140x120cm Artist website
[2] Kazimir Malevich Black Square, 1915 Oil on canvas
[3] Édouard Manet The Amazon - Portrait of Marie Lefébure, 1870/75 Oil on canvas Masp
[4] Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX. USA, 1971
[5] Ad Reinhardt Abstract Painting No. 5, 1962 ARS, NY and DACS, London 2020.

Text by Lucas Carvalho

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	fest.AR 2020 GLOBOPLAY LUCAS CARVALHO 2020 BASQUIAT IN CCBB 2018 BBC BRASIL 28/01/2017 GLOBONEWS 05/01/2017 FOLHA SP 29/08/2014 WHAT I KNOW OF PRADES SELECT AND ISTOÉ 2013		LUCAS CARVALHO 2020 On the "Negra 2" canvas at the "Triangular" exhibition at Casa Niemeyer, Brasília. UNB collection. July 2020. It may sound crazy, but for a long time black was not considered a color. Since the discovery of the spectrum of light by Isaac Newton, black and white, they have been relegated to the status of 'non-colors'. This lasted until mid-1910, when artists began to incorporate it into paintings with the same value as other colors, such as Malevich's emblematic 'Black Square'. Before that, Manet already baffled viewers with his massive blacks amid his realistic / impressionist canvases. The color that is read as the absence of something, bothers. Perhaps because the black color in the arts generally has a negative charge, being linked to meanings such as mourning, fear, loneliness. But black is also a dynamic and vivid color and you can see that on the screen “Negra 2” by Jaime Prades (@pradesartist). When entering the room in which it is exposed, something calls attention to the background. It appears to be an entirely black picture. But when you get close you can see sinuous lines that dance at a different frequency, yet in black. This overlapping of analogous colors, experienced by suprematists and abstract expressionists like Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, gains with Prades a spiritual tone, a spiritual one that refers to the cosmos. Gravitational waves dancing in the "void" of the universe. When observing the work we see that this void is well filled. It makes me think of the dynamics of the universe that occur in the midst of darkness. How so much goes on out there while we live our lives here on earth. It makes me think of the primordial and that before everything there was darkness. • Works in the post: [1] Jaime Prades Black 2, 2016 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 140x120cm Artist website [2] Kazimir Malevich Black Square, 1915 Oil on canvas [3] Édouard Manet The Amazon - Portrait of Marie Lefébure, 1870/75 Oil on canvas Masp [4] Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX. USA, 1971 [5] Ad Reinhardt Abstract Painting No. 5, 1962 ARS, NY and DACS, London 2020. Text by Lucas Carvalho #triangular #mostratriangular #casaniemeyer #casaniemeyerunb #artecontemporanea #contemporaryart #artbrazilianart #brazilianart # museuniversitário #latinamericanart #arteeducacao #artenaquarentena #artelatinoamericana