After black and white, red was the next colour to be understood by people. In a positive sense, the colour relates to blood, life, happines, energy, activity, love, power and life. In the negative sense, the colour red represents that which is banned. It speaks to danger, hatred, hospitality, worries and aggression.
Traditional latvian paintings started with the gamma of grey and earth colours, but the colour red was using for artistically emotional momentsby Janis Rozentāls, Kārlis Miesnieks, Voldemārs Tone and Konrāds Ubāns in their portraits, as well as by Janis Liepiņš and Ludolfs Liberts in symbolic scenes. From the ideological perspective, the colour red remained of timely importance in post-war Soviet art, when artists presented views f the war, of demonstrations and marches. Beginning in the 1960s, there were tendencies toward simplified form in paintings and the colour red obtained a distinct relative independence. The emotional values and artistic strengths of the colour were allowed to dominante.
Exhibition curator Dace Lemberga
L'exposition est couronnee par une dominante de la coulour rouge - la presentation des oeuvres de l'artiste francaise Martine Lafon.
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