Verner Panton Workshop this week-end

Variation 1 on Verner Panton

Venue: National Museum of Singapore Exhibition Gallery 2

Led by: Isabelle Desjeux

Dates: Sun 14th June & Sun 28 June 2009, 11:am – 12:30pm & 2:00pm – 3:30 pm

Tickets: Sistic

Did you know that colours interact with each other?

Did you realise that an object painted in one colour actually shows more than one colour?

Did you realise you could make flat paintings look 3-D just from the way you’re using colour?

These notions were well understood by the artists of the Op Art movement.

Verner Panton’s collection of textile prints, now visible at the National Museum illustrate these notions beautifully. They are a great place to start when you are trying to explain colour theory or how colours interact with each other.

Through a 90-minutes walk-through and workshop, the children (from 7 onwards) get to understand and experience for themselves the effect colour combinations can have on them. Shape is an important part of the design too, of course. So, when it comes to designing their own motif à-la-Panton, they get to choose their own shapes and colour combinations.

Variation 2 on Verner Panton