Screenshot If no yes, Rozendaal, 2013 |
Bright eye catching color is often reserved for childhood pursuits with serious or even bland color left to the business suits of adulthood. But color lovers know it doesn't have to be that way. Play time is for every age.
Take Dutch-Brazilian artist Rafaƫl Rozendaal. Rozendaal creates art websites with bold playful color. Each site has its own algorithms that shape, warp and animate fields of bubbly color. 'If no yes,' pictured above, flexes like a kaleidoscope as you slide your cursor across the surface of the website. The magenta pink and pale sky blue are shattered in to a window pane of mixing gradients.
Screenshot of Inner Doubts, Rozendaal, 2013 |
Rozendaal's site 'Inner Doubts' is a maze of trailing gradients, a rainbow that flows along the rectilinear sides and spare angles of a pathway that changes with every click. It is both soothing and a boiling pot of shifting color, a real treat of sumptuous color.
Screenshot of Everything Always Everywhere, Rozendaal, 2013 |
Screenshot of Maybe What, Rozendaal, 2013 |
These pieces, built for an adult art world, take color and play seriously. The sites are an opportunity to get a dose of bright color and too remind yourself that color is one of our creative tools and can be enjoyed for its own sake. If you are having a gray day, have a look though Rozendaal's sites. We promise a smile awaits.