José Luis Picón I Málaga (EFE).- “Litoral”, the magazine founded in 1926 by Emilio Prados and Manuel Altolaguirre in Málaga, has smeared its latest issue with a wide range of colors, that element that Joan Miró claimed to apply “ like words that form poems”.
“We always have a package of possible numbers to do and we choose the one that best suits us because we have willing material or collaborators. I love colour, so we decided to make this issue dedicated to colors and smear ourselves”, Lorenzo Saval, director of “Litoral” told EFE about Joan Miró.
“I imagined those pages in red, with the texts in red, the boxes in green. Imagine, I am a painter… This is also an issue for artists”, adds Saval.
As the director points out in his editorial, colour, “more than a perception, a visual impression or a sensation produced by light, is a place of encounter with nature, but essentially with ourselves”.
In its pages, the physicist, poet and essayist David Jou helps to understand what color is and how it is produced, and the editor Miguel Gómez goes back to Prehistory to find its origins.
Use of color in photography
For their part, writers such as Antonio Soler (green), Aurora Luque (blue), Carlos del Amor (white), José Antonio Garriga Vela (black), Eva Díaz Pérez (magenta), Justo Navarro (pink) or Guillermo Busutil (brown ) contribute in unpublished texts their point of view on different stripes of the rainbow.
The photographer and graphic editor Chema Conesa addresses the perception and use of color in photography, with special attention to Spanish photographers, and the art critic Juan Manuel Bonet contributes his “Portable Dictionary of Colors”, in which he shows the influence reciprocal between plastic arts and literature.
Chesterton said of white that “it is not a mere absence of colour; it is something bright and affirmative”, while Picasso advised: “If you don’t know what color to take, take black”. The artist from Malaga also once confessed: “When I don’t have any more blue I put red”.
De Kandinsky and Da Vinci
“Time will turn yellow on my photograph”, predicted Miguel Hernández, and Rafael Alberti gave this same yellow a voice in the first person in a poem in which he wrote: “I fear blue because it turns me green”.
Of green, Calderón de la Barca maintained that “it is the main color of the world, and the one from which its beauty arises”, Kandinsky defined orange as “the red that is close to humanity because of yellow” and Da Vinci assured that “one day gray provides the best light.”
The union of all, the rainbow, was for Gómez de la Serna “the ribbon that Nature puts on after having washed her head”, and about black, Renoir asserted: “It took me forty years to discover that the king of all colors is black.
After this explosion of color, the “Litoral” team, which is published every six months, is already working on the “great number” that it will dedicate to Pablo Picasso, says Saval, which will appear at the end of this year as part of the commemorative acts of the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death. EFE