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COLOUR

Coloured Works from
Almost Every Series

Here is a selection of artworks by Ron Bloore that include colours other than white and black. These thumbnails are linked to the pages that locate them amongst his other works.

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1980, June, ink on paper, 56x76cm

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“In one article I wrote about Jan's works I noted that he tended to favour sunset scenes, the end of days or seasons: images of thanksgiving. So I asked him one time why so many sunsets? ‘How else can you get so much red into a painting?’ I learned from that!”
 
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“When the white paintings came out I was just knocked out by them. Although when I saw, tonight coming in, that red painting: I have to say I would like to walk right out with it now! I really think that red painting is something else.”

- Adrienne Clarkson, Tribute to Ron Bloore 2009, Royal Ontario Museum
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Our eyes evolved to be more sensitive to greens than to any other colour. Our world is mostly green. Our eyes are most attuned to things not green, because food and threats, apples and snakes, tend not to be green. Red is a bowl of cherries. Yellow could be a tiger. Green means go, nothing to see here. So there is not much use of green in painting generally except to set off something else.
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“I like a guy who can give me the imagination to think that the sky is gold. Gold. I don't want Giotto to tell me the sky is blue. I mean this is an insult to my intelligence. I go outside and I see under normal circumstances the sky looks blue. I don’t need that. I don’t need somebody to replicate my daily experience.”
 
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1981, Three Scythian Stags on black silk, Estate Collection


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WORKS PERIOD PAGES

Before ’64 Early Days
1964 to ’74 White on White
1975 to ’87 Back to Toronto
1987 to ’99 Synthesis
2000 to ’07 Anti-synthesis

MODE OVERVIEWS

Works on Paper
Small Maquettes
Black Works
Works With Colour
Sploore Sculptures

MISCELLANEOUS

Sunday Sketches
1975-76 Sketches
Working Drawings
Oil Working Drawings
SERIES PAGES

’54 TO ’64
pre-’58 abstracts
58-59 enamels
59-60 relief
60-61 signs
61-62 mandalas
62-63 white lines
60-63 others
59-63 drawings

’64 TO ’74
64-66 after Egypt
67-68 murals
67-70 after Regina
70-74 after Cape Dorset
67-74 maquettes
64-68 drawings
70-72 sploores
SERIES PAGES

’75 TO ’87
75-76 byzantine lights
77-80 Sackvilles
79-83 stick relief
83-84 chasubles
80-84 stick chasubles
85-86 assemblages

78-79 Sackvilles on paper
1980 mixed media on paper
80-83 sumi ink on paper
80-81 gouaches on paper
1982 chasuble sketches
85-86 template drawings
1987 paper collages

80-83 small inkworks
80-81 large inkworks
80-83 very large inkworks
80-81 extra large inkworks
SERIES PAGES

’87 TO ’99
87-88 the X's
88-90 grand diptyches
91-93 squares continue
93-94 4-by-4's continue
1994 inkworks on paper
94-97 white white gold
97-98 brushed lines
98-99 News Series I

2000 TO ’07
2000 New Series II
01-02 move to Spadina
2003 back on the horse
2004 late series begin
04-05 back to the square
05-06 an old man's style
06-07 the Yellow Series
2007 the Last Series
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