"Midway through the 20th century, she argues, artists began to think about color in a new way: as a standardized, mass-produced product, something to be picked up in a store rather than hand-mixed on a palette. The show's central conceit is the commercial color chart, evoked most directly in this painting by Pop artist Jim Dine, who grew up working in his grandfather's hardware store in Cincinnati. While most of the works in the show are less literal in their reference, Temkin makes a smart and persuasive case for the emergence of what she calls a 'color-chart sensibility' in postwar and contemporary art."
Mia Fineman in Slate reviews the Museum of Modern Art's exhibit "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today."
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