Color Char at MoMA

The show Color Chart currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibits an array of works that reveal a change that occurred sometime in the early to mid twentieth century during which artists began to look at color differently.  The spiritual and emotional significance was left in favor of its new industrial production and wide availability.  Artists began to deal with color in new more conceptual ways that widened our understanding of the significance of color in art and life in general.  When someone mentions color to me I often think of colors that I see in mass produced products or on T.V. or the Internet.  Many of the colors I see and use on a daily basis are completely artificial and few if any of them could be found in nature.  It seems clear to me then that we have come a long way in our understanding of color.  Just as our lives involve direct experience of nature less and less so to have our understandings of color come to change.  The colors of nature seem bland and boring when you compare them to the intense hues of a Pantone swatch book.  That being said I don't think I would prefer that everything be neon electric color.  Rather, its interesting to see how everyday color in nature looks in comparison to the new colors created for the screen or industrially produced products.