The color wheel, deconstructed through the lens of post-modernisms.

For a Modernist, paint is paint surface is surface, color is color.  Modernity would like to think of black and white as an abstract concept. Modernity makes whiteness normal. 

So you have to make your life out of chaos. You have to organize your life out of disorder and that’s why I’m working on this chaos. I’m working on this pain. I’m making work out of war, out of the most chaotic and most extreme situations (Doris Salcedo).

"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue." —Allora & Calzadilla

“Experience”: it comes from the Latin word experiri, which means "to test" or "to prove," and from the Latin word periri, which means "peril" and "danger," and also from the Indo-European root per, which means “going across.” So experience means “going across danger.” (Doris Salcedo)

The Western modern tradition of teaching color, with its scientific emphasis on verifiable experiments and its aesthetic emphasis on formalism, can no longer be taught as an unproblematic, universal approach to understanding color…I am suggesting that we contextualize current color exercises in the history of modern art and culture and reexamine the values that are supported or diminished by the curriculum’s underlying assumptions and structural metaphors. Olivia Gude