An aesthetic (cyclical) theory of history in which colors and lines alternate in emphasis depending on a medium's stage in material history.
Begins with lines of colors on white surfaces (paintings) in the Romantic era to lines of single colors on black surfaces (neon) in the modern (industrial) era, to black lines created by contrapositive primary colors (pop realism) in the postmodern era to white lines on pastel colors (New Wave) in late postmodernism to white lines created by recursive (self-referencing) colors in hypermodernism.
Begins with lines of colors on white surfaces (paintings) in the Romantic era to lines of single colors on black surfaces (neon) in the modern (industrial) era, to black lines created by contrapositive primary colors (pop realism) in the postmodern era to white lines on pastel colors (New Wave) in late postmodernism to white lines created by recursive (self-referencing) colors in hypermodernism.
Color-line duality is an aesthetic phenomenon that presages the ascendance of aesthetic divergence over historical materialism as a theory of linear time.
by sandrashine September 4, 2018