Evolver oil on canvas is very clever because if you look carefully at the shapes, it looks like they are all exploding out from the centre. The colours for the blocks towards the centre of the painting are much bolder and more intense with bright a mixture of bright greens, reds, yellows, blues and pretty much any other colour you can think of. As the pattern moves outwards the colours fade and get paler. This can be viewed as the explosion that was in the centre of the painting is dying out as it reaches the edges of the canvas.
What I like most about this painting is that when two colours overlap, they are mixed together to create another, for example, when a blue block is overlapped with a yellow black the space in-between is green. The colours stand out so well because the back ground is white, if the background was, for instance, purple, the colours would not stand out as much.
The Dazzling Darkness oil on canvas, also by Rebecca Partridge, does the exact same thing although it’s in the opposite direction, so the squares are going into the centre and getting lighter in colour like their being sucked into a vacuum. I think these colours stand out so well because the background is black.
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