Symbolic Image of Colors in the Animation Film, Loving Vincent

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2019S1A5B5A07106628)Disclosure StatementThe author declares no conflict of interest.Notes1 “I’ve been trying all winter to get my hands on the elements that make up this painting and to find a clear pattern. (omitted) I believe that it’s better to expose their clunkiness than to put on a stereotyped packaging in the end.” An excerpt from van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters.2 The Japanese film Rashomon was the world’s first oil painting animation film.3 For example, Inside Out and Mune: The Guardian of the Moon.4 The Natural Color System (NCS) is a proprietary perceptual color model based on the color opponency hypothesis of color vision, first proposed by German physiologist Ewald Hering.5 Examples of such works include Paul Gauguin’s Paintings of Tahiti, Van Gogh’s Café Terrace at Night, and Gustav Klimt’s The Dancer and The Virgin.6 Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings established during the Edo Period (1615-1868) depicting the daily lives and customs of the time.7 To produce this animation, artists were selected by auditioning, and 107 artists drew 65,000 painting by themselves. Since the picture was reproduced in the same standard, imagination was added when it was larger than the original in Living Vincent.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2019S1A5B5A07106628).Notes on contributorsEunha SonI am currently working as a research professor at the Korean Studies Institute at Pusan National University. I focus on interdisciplinary studies in the humanities and imaging science.