Something I found very intriguing while surfing the web. A Swiss artist and comedian Ursus Wehrli tries to apply his philosophy of tidying up art into the constituent colours or shapes to all sorts of art pieces. Critics have called it unnatural, but I think it's just another form of expression.
Reminds me of those days when I was in a PAP kindergarten and all the kids had to share a box of crayons. I always got the black crayon because nobody wanted it and I was the smallest kid there, which kind of ensured you always got the leftovers.I coloured everything black, and when the teacher asked me why the fish I was colouring was black, I told her my crayon was black. She didn't get me a new crayon. It was also kind of hard to colour between the lines, because after awhile, there weren't any lines.
My positive association with art teachers didn't end there. There was a session that consisted of knitting with woolen threads. On the materials bench, there was a whole assortment of woolen threads in many different colours. Most kids just took one. However, in what was perhaps an unconscious manifestation of my colour deprivation complex in a PAP kindergarten, I went ahead and took a few threads of every colour.
The teacher's retort: "You knitting a multicoloured underwear ah?"
The moral of the story, as it appeared to a 8 year old kid:
You don't need many colours to create an artwork. You need just one.
On some metaphilosophical level, that is probably true, but I think most people realise that crayon and colour pencil sets have a selection of colours for a reason.
If someone were to submit something like this for a primary school art class and tell the teacher it's because colours aren't meant to mix and everything needs order in this world, I'd love to hear what kind of comeback the teacher would come up with.
Do it for the dude who had to use a black crayon. Just do it.