Arcane Couleur
2003
France
Extra Fool (JOK) card, plus card with explanation of the colour system.
Art Medium:
Pen drawn arrays coloured with watercolour
Description:
This is an attempt to create a Tarot out of a system of four colours red - green - yellow - cyan. Each of the cards has patterns created out of mixing these colours in different permutations and saturations. These have been related to the 22 Majors and the four suits of the Minors. On the box it indicates that it is a Pedagogical tool and an object of meditation. It would be of interest to those particularly engaged by colour systems. It is interesting that this is not created using Photoshop but actually painted in watercolours. It was devised in 1990 when colour graphics on computers was not well developed. The first Macintosh II colour implemented computer was issued in 1987.