Subliminal colours in the Jose Guerrero’s work. Methodology and analysis for the pleasure

Abstract

José Guerrero’ s Art Centre collection shows a considerable number of paintings by this author, which are a great part of his artistic work. In the last years, thanks to the understanding and collaboration among different public entities, the controversy regarding the permanence of the collection in the museum has ended. A wide research has been done about the paintings through the colorimetrical study of its pictorial surfaces, which shows new artistic aspects of them. Some of these are: graduated shading in apparent stains of plain colours, linear limits or shades among different parts and, specially, areas with almost negligible colour through natural visual analysis. These have been shown thanks to the scientific methodology used.

The research has also contributed to learn about the creative techniques, the colours and the expressivity of his paintings, verifying their quality. Their range of colours is visual stimulus that for many observers may seem consciously imperceptible due to their capacity of differenciating the colours shown. However, they may have an influence on the reactions the observers might experience when they contemplate the paintings because of the unconscious appreciation. The subliminal apparently appreciated and the synesthesia justify this phenomenon.