Colorado Fine Art Center
On Saturday, I visited the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. This was one of my first experiences with walking around an art gallery and taking time to soak up what the artists were feeling. The on display art piece was “The Designing Women of Postwar Britain.” The pieces were lined upon the hallways and stairs. The artwork was from the 1950s and was created using new scientific advancements in textile screen printing. Most of the artwork was created from the cherry stem motif, a stick with a “dot” on either end. The designs are said to come from the ideas of Marian Mahler. As a walked the hall, the artist who really stood out to me was Lucienne Day. She was born in 1917 in Britain. Her work was screen printed on cotton linens. Each of her pieces had a vibrant color that stood out on the cream colored fabric. “Herb Anthony” was the first piece of Lucienne’s I stumbled upon. The background was a cream fabric; on the piece thin black lined polygons in the shape of abstract insects flowed from one end to the other. Inside each “insect” a different color polygon laid. The colors were red, blue, and green. As I walked up the stairs, more of Lucienne Day’s artwork flooded the walls. Her piece “Too Many Cooks Glass Towls” caught my attention. The linen was canvas colored; on the Irish linen women of all different sizes stood. Some of the women were tall, some short, some stout; others were bean-pole thin. Some women faced forward, others stood backward. Some women carried towels, some rolling pins, and others had aprons that hung around their waist. There were several of the same prints along the wall; however, each screen print was two-color toned and outlined in black. The colors were green, black, red, teal, blue, hunter green, and purple. I gazed at the cloth for quite sometime, and I couldn’t help but wonder how the colors stayed so vibrant. The images were as clear as the screen prints of today. The lines so evenly thin and clean, the...