Black as a concept is intriguing and important especially when starting a painting.
It is true that every area in the painting is relative to all areas in the painting and that each area will look different when you adjust the surrounding areas against which you make sense of each area. With this in mind it’s logical that in painting, any colour can be black as by definition black is an area which reads as possessing no colour and if colour is relative in a painting then we could reduce the visual information of any colour by choosing the contextual colours well.
I am sure that there are artist’s who have already played with this and I have not delved into it but the idea of what a painting would be like if neon pink were the chosen colour for black is very intriguing. I am not talking about neon pink looking like black but being interpreted as black. Just something to think about and I will update this section when I have had time to investigate it more either through my own work or the work of others.
